Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 2 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 3 | He had been dreading this . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 6 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 7 | James got to Corunna , where the whole force had been supposed to rendezvous and pick up Ormonde , in time to see the last battered casualties arrive , grateful perhaps that , so soon after his own recent sufferings in the Mediterranean , he had been spared this further ordeal . |
| 8 | As he entered the study , Stephen reflected on how fortunate he had been to obtain this man 's services . |
| 9 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 10 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |