Example sentences of "he had be [verb] [det] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 2 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 3 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 4 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 5 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 6 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 7 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 8 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 9 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 10 | But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell . |
| 11 | He had been christened that morning and died the same afternoon . |
| 12 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 13 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 14 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 15 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |
| 16 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 19 | As he entered the study , Stephen reflected on how fortunate he had been to obtain this man 's services . |
| 20 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 21 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 22 | Yuan looked down , then broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening . |