Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 2 | Now he is churning out line with a 15lb breaking strain and it is proving so popular that he has now got rid of the old banger he had been driving around in for years and bought his first executive saloon . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Every night this week he 's been playing Hendrix to a packed Ronnie Scott 's in Birmingham . |
| 5 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 6 | All this time he had been working like a madman , limping about overseeing the repairs and helping in spite of his own wounds wherever his strength was needed . |
| 7 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 8 | This time he 's been wearing protective clothing . |
| 9 | I raise the delicate question he 's been avoiding . |
| 10 | Li Shai Tung 's hands rested lightly on the table 's edge , the now-empty bowl he had been eating from placed to one side , out of his way . |
| 11 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 12 | In his own mitigation Harty said the previous day he had been clearing out his garage and come across long forgotten fishing tackle . |
| 13 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 14 | All afternoon he had been monitoring the progress of the Peace Demo from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square and plotting the advance of the National Front from the opposite direction . |
| 15 | His brow cleared after the terrific mental exercise he 'd been putting in . |
| 16 | All night he had been thinking : I 've been sleeping over Mosse 's dead body . |
| 17 | All week he 'd been trying not to think . |
| 18 | All season he has been playing well , putting poorly . |
| 19 | He dumped his kitbag and led her to an armchair , but she clung to him in a state of possessive disbelief which upset Charles even more than the deep depression he 'd been suffering from when he entered the flat . |
| 20 | Come and sit down , ’ he invited her , indicating the elegant stone-coloured couch he had been occupying . |
| 21 | He put the stub of the fat cigar he had been smoking under the cold tap , turned the water on for a second while the brown stump sizzled and died , then threw the sodden remnant in the bin . |
| 22 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 23 | One instant he had been running flat out , the next he had stopped , whipped round to face them , and dropped into a defensive crouch . |
| 24 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 25 | One moment he had been looking forward to a happy and wealthy retirement and now , minutes later , he was a condemned criminal with only a few hours left to live . |
| 26 | " Quiss she began quietly , He shook his head , kicked the small chair he had been sitting on , and marched off across the squeaking , grating glass floor , heading for his own apartments , Before he left the games room for the short corridor which led to his rooms , he stopped by the side wall of the room , where more conventional paper and cardboard books lined the slate fabric of the castle — the masons ' lame attempt at insulation . |
| 27 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 28 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 29 | Richie put a match to the small cigar he 'd been holding . |
| 30 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |