Example sentences of "he had been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been roaming New Orleans , his adopted city , for two days . |
| 2 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 3 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |
| 4 | At the same time , at the request of the minister of South Ronaldsay and Burray , the Reverend Morris Mackenzie , he had been conducting inquiries into the law concerning the uplifting of children . |
| 5 | His appointment as curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum at a salary of £300 p.a. was announced on 16 July 1904 ; he had been acting curator while his predecessor George H. Birch [ q.v. ] had been on sick leave . |
| 6 | He had been muttering vows of romantic love , rather sullen . |
| 7 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 8 | Mr Bates , of Brackley , Northants , hit and killed a scientist on a bicycle on his way back from a business meeting in London where he had been drinking wine and sherry , the Court heard . |
| 9 | 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 ) . |
| 10 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 11 | It can be contained by medication and he had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Salford as a voluntary patient just prior to his trip . |
| 12 | Evidently he had been expecting Hazel to speak first and was somewhat at a loss . |
| 13 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 14 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 15 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 16 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 17 | It had even caused Dad to get in touch with her ( although apparently for the past three or four years , he had been collecting cuttings … ) |
| 18 | Although he had been writing letters for months he was still only a quarter of the way through the names beginning with ‘ A , . |
| 19 | To do this he had been dropping dummies by parachute near Italian prisoner-of-war camps , and the advent of some real parachutists was an obvious gift . |
| 20 | He looked the way he looked when he had been telling jokes and there were no more jokes to tell . |
| 21 | He had been watching Cardiff , and now that infuriating secret smile registered again . |
| 22 | He had been watching Clare and Underwood for some time , but without much of interest developing . |
| 23 | Before becoming Prime Minister , he had been developing policies designed to ‘ safeguard ’ British industry . |
| 24 | as if he had been considering Preston 's problems and this was his solution to them . |
| 25 | He had been eating guavas. and listening , when we had discussed our destination with the conductor . |
| 26 | At Seletar he had been flying Vildebeest torpedo bombers , and he now underwent a conversion course onto the more modern Beauforts . |
| 27 | He had been warning Matilda , reminding her that she could still threaten Edmund 's safety to ensure Isabel 's obedience . |
| 28 | He had been moving heaven and earth to gain what was now little more than a pittance , in the light of what he had unexpectedly inherited . |
| 29 | He had been holding ALFRED , in his robe and blond wig . |
| 30 | Jerry , above , split with the Rolling Stone earlier this year over claims he had been dating model Carla Bruni . |