Example sentences of "what he had [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ignoring Havvie Blaine , Stair , the astonished Mr Sands who could hardly believe what he had been hearing , and all the other spectators , he dragged her across the room and through a side-door by the small stage , into a long corridor . |
| 2 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 3 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 4 | She guessed what he had been thinking and jumped in with a diverting remark . |
| 5 | Now Zen knew what he had been thinking . |
| 6 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 7 | He did n't know what he had been expecting , but he felt very disappointed . |
| 8 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 9 | He knew now what had been worrying Darren , what he had been concealing . |
| 10 | Entire and accessible to the front of his mind was what he had been trying to recall his wife had said about the picture , but it was n't about the picture . |
| 11 | Thus , when Dennis offered him exactly half what he had been making , Lauda thought he 'd had a touch of sun . |
| 12 | In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing . |
| 13 | Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz . |
| 14 | As he took an eager gulp from his glass , he decided that Hank ought to tell his mother what he had been doing . |
| 15 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 16 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 17 | Listening to them , Folly realised that she had never got around to asking Luke what he had been doing at Lexy 's flat the night before . |
| 18 | It was almost as if he had spent three weeks thinking over what he had been doing and worked it all out . |
| 19 | ‘ If you think — ’ Coleby thought better of what he had been going to say . |
| 20 | But his head cleared as the pain receded and he remembered what he had been going to ask Curtis . |
| 21 | It was what he had been waiting for . |
| 22 | He tried to grasp what he had been rehearsing but he seemed to have lost it . |
| 23 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 24 | In contrast to what he had been fearing , it was a trivial matter . |
| 25 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 26 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 27 | In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying . |