Example sentences of "but he had been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 2 | Item — On the night of March 18th , there was a fierce storm ; Alexander was not drunk but he had been drinking heavily . |
| 3 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 4 | But he had been drinking , and deep inside she knew he had been partly to blame . |
| 5 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 6 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 7 | But he had been coming home drunk too often and now she was determined to let him know her feeling about it . |
| 8 | He had looked older when she had seen him at St Petrock 's ; but he had been scowling then , and now he was looking quite friendly and interested — rather like James , who sat in front of them regarding them both with faithful brown eyes . |