Example sentences of "he had [been] [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 2 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 3 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 4 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 5 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 6 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 7 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 8 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 9 | He had been dreading this . |
| 10 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 11 | He had been writing short stories and inventing film scripts since his childhood but it was not until 1940 that one was accepted for publication by Cyril Connolly [ q.v. ] in Horizon . |
| 12 | He had been doodling obsessive box-like designs , a nest of interlocking right-angled lines locking out all possibility of error or surprise . |
| 13 | On closer questioning it was found that he had been harbouring strong transsexual feelings for some while and that the injury resulted from an urge to initiate a sex change . |
| 14 | He had been watching young chicks , he said , and noted how they explored their environment by pecking at crumbs or other small objects , including their own droppings , but quickly learned to distinguish edible from inedible items . |
| 15 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 16 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 17 | ‘ It came out in the court that he had been robbing old ladies … confidence trickster was the word . |
| 18 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
| 19 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 20 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 21 | His beard was grey-white , but discoloured yellow around his mouth as if he had been drooling thin custard . |
| 22 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 23 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 24 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 25 | I was aware that he had been focusing all his will on this resolve and that to let go now would be an appalling submission . |
| 26 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 27 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 28 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |
| 29 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |
| 30 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |