Example sentences of "[conj] he have [be] [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 31 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 32 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 33 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 34 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 35 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 36 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 37 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 38 | He sighed tiredly , as though he had been working for a full day with stone and timber , and tried to listen to James Menzies , who was well away , drinking whisky with Allan and simmering with the news from the west , where the lists had been torn down from the church doors at Fortingall and Kenmore , and from Blair Atholl : the Duke 's factor had had to meet a crowd of more than a thousand and the Duke had signed a paper swearing not to impose the Act . |