Example sentences of "[noun] he have [be] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 2 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 3 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 4 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 5 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 6 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 7 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 8 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 9 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 10 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 11 | Before leaving England he had been hankering after his American roots , not only in those sections of Ash-Wednesday which recall the New England coast , but also in his prose , invoking , for instance , his old master Josiah Royce , who was now mostly forgotten , ‘ but a great philosopher in his day ’ . |
| 12 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
| 13 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 14 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |
| 15 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 16 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 17 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 18 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 19 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 20 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 21 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 22 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 23 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 24 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 25 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 26 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 27 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 28 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 29 | For three years he 's been campaigning on behalf of his brother Gary Mills and another man Tony Poole . |
| 30 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |