Example sentences of "had be [v-ing] in his " in BNC.
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| 1 | John Dalton eventually elicited the truth of his identity from him and offered him sanctuary as a hermit in his own home ( perhaps Richard had been reconnoitring in his disappearance before dinner ) and at his own expense . |
| 2 | Lefevre , who for some time had been shifting in his seat with every sign of impatience , relaxed and smiled . |
| 3 | It was as though an extraordinary story — a great mythology , with half-forgotten legends , languages and lore — had been unfolding in his head from the time he began to think ; and his appreciation of the Old Literature was at the deepest level imaginative and creative . |
| 4 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 5 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 6 | He had been acting in his departmental role , gathering information for Mr Parkinson , when he contacted Eurotunnel . |
| 7 | Jim feels ‘ as if a demon had been whispering in his ear ’ and goes to his death with the whisper still sounding , killed by the people he had tried , in one final , tragic mistake , to save for the future . |
| 8 | The idea of controlling Gazzer , of making Gazzer afraid of him , excited him : it had been evolving in his mind ever since that afternoon 's walk with Marie down to the arcades . |
| 9 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 10 | Gavin Turk , who attracted notice for erecting , as his only contribution to his degree show at the Royal College of Art a year ago , a blue English Heritage plaque announcing that he had been working in his studio for two years , is having a first exhibition at an apartment in Docklands , opposite Canary Wharf ( 1–31 July ; by appointment only , call 071–274 0041 ) . |
| 11 | Lucy Lane had been working in his team for three years but he felt that he knew her only a little better than he had done after her first month . |
| 12 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 13 | The bowyer came out of the back of the shop , the bow case which he had been selecting in his hands . |
| 14 | At the time Patten had been sitting in his Smith Square office , gently smoothing the bags beneath his eyes . |