Example sentences of "he had been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 2 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 3 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He also told the court he had been acting in accordance with an order from Allied Forces Headquarters on 14 May 1945 . |
| 6 | He had been acting in his departmental role , gathering information for Mr Parkinson , when he contacted Eurotunnel . |
| 7 | Mr Justice Johnson , who jailed the 37year-old Marquess for failing to pay £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky , said he had been acting in excess of his powers when he imposed the sentence . |
| 8 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 9 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 10 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 11 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 12 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 13 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 14 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 15 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 16 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 17 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 18 | He had been listening from the doorway ; now he marched into the room and glared at Mr Evans , his eyes hot with anger . |
| 19 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 20 | The drawings were in a new style he had been experimenting with recently , and now , he felt , he had got it just right . |
| 21 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 22 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 23 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 24 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 25 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 26 | And , it 's not a text but perhaps a verse that we could use as a , as a springboard is verse twenty seven , and it says at this point his disciples came and they marvelled that he had been speaking with a woman ! |
| 27 | But when he had been speaking of Katherine 's children , her opinion of him had begun to change , it sounded as if he did have a genuine sympathy for them and their plight . |
| 28 | He had been speaking of his wife , and Constance had been surprised , for this was the language of love and quite unlike the more usual ‘ Cor , you should 've seen the pair she had on ‘ er . ’ |
| 29 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 30 | He had been dealing with them on and off all his life . |