Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] [been] [v-ing] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |
| 2 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 3 | In the course of Abimelech 's questioning of Abraham it emerges that he has been claiming Sarah is his sister at every place they have been ! |
| 4 | ‘ And he 's been imprisoning IRA members , I understand . ’ |
| 5 | as if he had been considering Preston 's problems and this was his solution to them . |
| 6 | ‘ I could n't tell him for sure , but he 's been taking Vulcan out most days . |
| 7 | Curtis faced a maximum sentence of 14 years in prison because he had been growing Psilocybe cubensis , or ‘ magic mushrooms ’ as they were called in court . |
| 8 | Ted was awake and out here because he 'd been hearing Wayne speaking to him , and he was worried about his sanity . |
| 9 | ‘ Wheeler certainly knew or suspected something about candles since he 's been questioning Williams about them , ’ said Ian , recalling his unsatisfactory conversation with the Verger . |
| 10 | When he had been keeping Desdemona company , awaiting Othello 's arrival from Venice , Iago had entertained them with impromptu ( and bitter ) rhymes , describing his imagination 's preliminary working ( the rhetorical process of inventio ) in these terms : Frieze is a coarse woollen cloth , birdlime a viscous stuff used to entangle : the destructive collocation of the two seems an apt metaphor for Iago 's ‘ invention ’ . |