Example sentences of "[adv] he have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 2 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 3 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 4 | How long he 'd been sleeping rough no one could tell . |
| 5 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 6 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 7 | Now he 's been taken ill with this so , she hopes that he do n't and get behind you know but it 's the head in it ? |
| 8 | Because like she said , here he 's been made redundant once , and he stands another chance of just starting |
| 9 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 10 | Since then he had been re-elected six times . |
| 11 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 12 | He loved to tell stories of how he had given advice , how it had been disregarded , and how he had been proved right . |
| 13 | When the Germans , who controlled Tangier through General Franco , demanded Klein 's arrest , Wharton-Tigar in 1943 had spirited Klein out to Gibraltar and from there on to the safety of England where he had been given British citizenship . |
| 14 | She was in MacQuillan 's room again , her eyes drawn to the desk where he had been found dead . |
| 15 | It was reported on Dec. 18 that the former president of the Senate , Alberto Borea Odria , who had been involved in the abortive coup of Nov. 13 [ see p. 39187 ] , had been granted safe conduct to travel to Costa Rica , where he had been offered diplomatic asylum . |
| 16 | The problem is I do n't know where he has been placing these shot . |
| 17 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |