Example sentences of "he have been reading " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 2 | ‘ He 'd been reading it . |
| 3 | Fighting down the customary surge of frustration , Luce turned to Michele , who , having thrown aside the paper he 'd been reading , was standing quietly , his expression politely detached . |
| 4 | Eliot , though , is determined , like the anthropological writers he had been reading , to make plain the root of the custom , which he does in the next line , ‘ And flowers of deflowered maids ’ . |
| 5 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 6 | Kegan looked up from the paper he had been reading and looked a little hopefully at the faces in front of him . |
| 7 | The story of a man compelled to search for a pure virgin , read one evening while his mother was mending stockings , left him ‘ haunted by spectres ’ whenever he was in the dark ; other stories drew him out to the churchyard , where , with his imagination overflowing , he would race up and down through the great avenue of elm trees , and act out among the docks , nettles and rank grass whatever he had been reading . |
| 8 | His foot touched the book he had been reading before he had fallen asleep . |
| 9 | Nahum was about to close the ledger when his attention was caught by the entry above the one he had been reading . |
| 10 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
| 11 | She sat on the opposite couchette and picked up the paperback he had been reading . |
| 12 | He had been reading Lenin 's Imperialism : The highest stage of capitalism , and his ideological position had hardened . |
| 13 | He had been reading the notes of Wittgenstein , he said , who before his death had been working on the relation between the private , sensuous experience of colour and the universal language of colour words with which we appear to be able to communicate it . |
| 14 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 15 | When tea was brought he took out a book he had been reading over his lunch . |
| 16 | Then she remembered that it was only a selection of the poems he had been reading and she did not need to speculate further , for — much to her surprise — he began to read |
| 17 | He thought that he had heard the house door close : McAllister must have left for a stroll , or perhaps even a visit up West , and it would be safe for him to leave the surgery where he had been reading Mr H. G. Wells 's scientific romance The Time Machine , and return to the comfort of his armchair . |
| 18 | he 's been reading his horses . |