Example sentences of "[conj] he have been [v-ing] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 2 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 3 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 4 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 5 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 6 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 7 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 8 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 9 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 10 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 11 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 12 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 13 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 14 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |
| 15 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 16 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 17 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 18 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 19 | ‘ That is Sparky 's ninth goal of the season and he 's been scoring for us throughout , ’ Ferguson said . |
| 20 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 21 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 22 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 23 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 24 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 25 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 26 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 27 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 28 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
| 29 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 30 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |