Example sentences of "his father had be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His father had been shielding him from the stones coming through . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 5 | 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 . |