Example sentences of "the boy [vb past] [been] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As George bent to pick up the halter of the horse which the boy had been holding , he looked round the yard with interest , noting how his father 's voice , though by no means a shout , had penetrated every corner . |
| 2 | And he remembered that the boy had been fiddling with them . |
| 3 | He told me this morning that he thought the boy had been working too hard . ’ |
| 4 | He did not say that a week ago the boy had been standing under the monkey-puzzle in the middle of the night , looking up at the windows of the house . |
| 5 | In the middle of the hut was another large flat stone which was used as a table , and on it was the bag the boy had been carrying . |
| 6 | The stool on which the boy had been sitting tipped over and hit the floor with a loud crash . |
| 7 | Neil 's aunt Valerie Mason , of Millfields , said the boys had been riding a friend 's bike when they were involved in a collision with a car . |
| 8 | This group had already trekked from Pochala on the Ethiopian border ; some of the boys had been living a transitory existence for four years . |