Example sentences of "he had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been scouring a pan , but now put it on another jerry-can to drain , alongside two clean plates . |
| 2 | He had been roaming New Orleans , his adopted city , for two days . |
| 3 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 4 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |
| 5 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 8 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 9 | Bob Mays had to confront the fact that for years he had been loving someone else 's daughter . |
| 10 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 11 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had been whistling and probably not bothering to tread softly . |
| 16 | He knew now what had been worrying Darren , what he had been concealing . |
| 17 | He also told the court he had been acting in accordance with an order from Allied Forces Headquarters on 14 May 1945 . |
| 18 | He had been acting in his departmental role , gathering information for Mr Parkinson , when he contacted Eurotunnel . |
| 19 | ‘ He had been acting a bit strangely recently . ’ |
| 20 | Up until then he had been acting temporarily in the post , awaiting the arrival of a more experienced businessman . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He would soon realise he had been acting stupidly and feel sorry for his bad temper . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | ‘ Sure I would , ’ and her brother turned on the Sunday game he had been listening to when Moran entered the yard . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | He had been listening carefully . |
| 30 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |