Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 2 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 3 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 4 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 5 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 6 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 7 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 8 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 9 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 10 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 11 | At this time , Miller told Blair that he had been working with Nathanael St André , ‘ the famous anatomist ’ , examining structures of plants and he believed that together they would make some curious discoveries . |
| 12 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 13 | He told Heatley that he had been walking along the footpath when the police had made a baton charge . |
| 14 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 15 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 16 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 17 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 18 | He shivered , remembering a dream where he had been riding north into the mountains with a woman who was not his wife . |
| 19 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Bill in question goes a good deal wider than just the matters that he has been addressing . |
| 20 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 21 | He started collecting as a child and he 's been buying ever since . |
| 22 | He would have posed the same question if he had been sitting in her position . |
| 23 | The patient 's name was Wayne Benfield and he 'd been coming into the centre for daily dressings to an injured ankle . |
| 24 | ‘ I had to warn Monty about his drinking because he 'd been causing trouble , ’ MGM 's then chief of production , Dore Schary said to me . |
| 25 | Mrs Hindle said : ‘ He was so pleased with his bike and he has been itching to get outside and play on it . |
| 26 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 27 | He used to be a crane driver dear for , yeah he used and I 've got to , one of me sons now is a foreman for , well they 're not now it 's , it 's sort of amal amalgamated with another firm now I think , but he does , he does erm , he 's a foreman like now , he used to be a truck , crane driver and my , the very night that my hubby died on the following Monday he would of been working in Harlow , he got a new crane to take over in Harlow and he 'd been working away from home for weeks and months of the year always away , coming home weekends and I used to have to cook and do his washing and pack him up for going off again Monday morning early , but he never was near home working then , and as I say the night before he went he was , he was gon na work on the Monday to in Old , to Harlow down where the new er place was for and it unfortunately cos he went . |
| 28 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the recent adjournment is to allow the provisional liquidator to formalise details of the compensation package that he has been negotiating with the Government of Abu Dhabi . |