Example sentences of "he had be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been listening in . |
| 2 | The deputy was a Socialist , he had been speaking out against the old work conditions that were being reimposed . |
| 3 | Once he had told her , in a mood of taunting cruelty that sometimes overtook him , that he had been saving up quietly all these years , enough money " to be rid of you for ever " . |
| 4 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 5 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 6 | He had been hiding out , sleeping rough , until three days ago when he arrived in Paris to look up another man indebted to him . |
| 7 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 8 | At the next meeting , Mr E almost casually mentioned that he had been trying out one or two of last week 's ideas and that Dave seemed quite responsive to him this week . |
| 9 | He had a really nice family — he had a very good relationship with his wife — he was very bright , he enjoyed life , he read a lot , he had been teaching up until a month before hospitalization , and he had the will to live … |
| 10 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 11 | There had been too much ‘ talk and show ’ early on and he had been wriggling about , scraping his chair back and causing Mrs Singh to reprimand him constantly . |
| 12 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 13 | He had been drifting back and forth between the two ever since . |
| 14 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 15 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 16 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 17 | He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows . |
| 18 | Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up . |
| 19 | When tea was brought he took out a book he had been reading over his lunch . |
| 20 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 21 | He had been swinging in and out of consciousness for several days . |
| 22 | Although , she reasoned realistically , if he had been fooling around behind her back it indicated that what he felt for her fell very far short of love , in which case he would probably have cancelled the wedding if she had n't . |
| 23 | The youth was certainly one of the vagabond gipsies , and it looked as if he had been spying out Farmer Yatton 's land , for the very next morning Angela 's daddy came into the farmhouse with the news that several sacks of potatoes and a quantity of oats had been stolen from one of the storehouses during the night . |
| 24 | His father brushed the chair he had been sitting on and , with a flourish , invited Madeleine to sit down . |
| 25 | Then a grinding and then all of a sudden Captain Pugwash fell flat on his face as the stone he had been sitting on swung upwards , revealing a dark space below . |
| 26 | The young man pulled forward the chair he had been sitting on and lifted one leg up on it . |
| 27 | " Quiss she began quietly , He shook his head , kicked the small chair he had been sitting on , and marched off across the squeaking , grating glass floor , heading for his own apartments , Before he left the games room for the short corridor which led to his rooms , he stopped by the side wall of the room , where more conventional paper and cardboard books lined the slate fabric of the castle — the masons ' lame attempt at insulation . |
| 28 | Howard leapt to his feet from the chair he had been sitting in . |
| 29 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 30 | He seemed almost normal again ; he had been staring out of the window and had commented on a street name he remembered from his London period . |