Example sentences of "[conj] he have been [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shivered , remembering a dream where he had been riding north into the mountains with a woman who was not his wife . |
| 2 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 3 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 4 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 5 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 6 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 7 | A big farmer admitted that he had been selling cotton stalks to agricultural labourers , a new trend in the region . |
| 8 | This will equally enable the Policyholder to replace the engine with one of similar type , capacity , age and size to the one lost — and therefore we will have provided him with indemnity under the Policy notwithstanding the fact that he has been paying premium on the value insured . |
| 9 | It can be contained by medication and he had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Salford as a voluntary patient just prior to his trip . |
| 10 | Edward was pale and she wondered if he 'd been eating pork crackling again which did n't agree with him , but he did n't seem sick . |
| 11 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 12 | ‘ I had to warn Monty about his drinking because he 'd been causing trouble , ’ MGM 's then chief of production , Dore Schary said to me . |
| 13 | He would lead us to believe the classic amp designers were mere technicians , while he 's been making tube amps since 1957 . |
| 14 | A police statement on Nov. 14 , however , claimed that the shots had gone astray ( one into the air , the other into the ground ) only because a policeman had pounced on the gunman , Aleksandr Shmonov , as he had been taking aim at the leadership 's reviewing stand atop the Lenin Mausoleum , only 46 metres away . |
| 15 | He made himself wake finally and lay under the covers feeling weak and hot , as though he had been spending energy incessantly all night . |