Example sentences of "his [noun] had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like him , lying underneath that mini … his heart had been going overtime then , thinking of the law closing down on him . |
| 2 | His story had been absorbing and very revealing ; it was difficult to relate it to the other , more menacing side of him . |
| 3 | Philip shut the window and took the camouflage jacket his Mum had been going to throw out . |
| 4 | A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth . |
| 5 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 6 | His eyes had been feeding on darkness and projections for too long , and now , presented with solid reality , they were befuddled . |
| 7 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 8 | ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up . |
| 9 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 10 | Owen knew his parents had been having aromatherapy massage , so I think it made him feel grown-up and important . |
| 11 | His body had been expecting her . |
| 12 | Beeson , the England captain , scored his first victory over the world No. 9 , Zarak Jahan Khan , with one of the finest performances of his career , and then complained about the remarks he claimed his opponent had been making during the rallies . |
| 13 | In mitigation Duncan Smith said Stevenson and his friend had been drinking in a pub and decided to take a car to get back home . |
| 14 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 15 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 16 | Her husband , who was carrying her clubs and who , in golfing terms , is very much of the conservative half of the partnership , had refrained from protesting , presumably on the grounds that his wife had been playing well and was ‘ up ’ for the shot . |
| 17 | Since his wife had been failing and the family was very poor , they decided not to bury him right away . |
| 18 | He had declined an invitation to dinner , as the stabbing pains in his head had been getting steadily worse throughout the day . |
| 19 | He knew , too , that his head had been aching and that his mind was capable of playing tricks upon him . |
| 20 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |
| 21 | Kermit and his staff had been watching Hurricane Andrew as it tore through the Bahamas . |
| 22 | It was later compounded by the fall-out from a family explosion : on Roger Ackerley 's death in 1929 the son discovered that , first , his father had been maintaining a separate menage and that , second , the money had run out . |
| 23 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 24 | All that term his father had been planning ways and means , trying to overturn the will , looking for compromises , plotting for all Adam knew a frontal assault . |
| 25 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 26 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 27 | His lordship had been entertaining two guests , a young lady and gentleman , in the summerhouse , and had watched my father 's approach across the lawn bearing a much welcome tray of refreshments . |
| 28 | The conference of 1923 was the culmination of long planning on the part of Lord Darlington ; indeed , in retrospect , one can see clearly how his lordship had been moving towards this point from some three years or so before . |
| 29 | He sat on a huge leather chair with a sigh of relief and it was clear to Hari that his leg had been giving him trouble . |
| 30 | Those moments in his arms had been revealing . |