Example sentences of "[conj] [adv] he have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 2 | It occurred to her that perhaps he had been drinking again . |
| 3 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 4 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 5 | Up until then he had been acting temporarily in the post , awaiting the arrival of a more experienced businessman . |
| 6 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 7 | Now , he finds people are beginning to be more open about their sexuality , and consequently he has been promoting the activities of the centre for sexual problems in Istanbul . |
| 8 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |
| 9 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 10 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |