Example sentences of "[noun sg] [noun] he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 2 | For the first time she saw the red tin container he had been hiding behind his back . |
| 3 | Something in her voice made him ease back on the throttle , decide not to pass the Renault Turbo lorry he 'd been stalking . |
| 4 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 5 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |
| 6 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 7 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 8 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 9 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |
| 10 | The fire was caused through the carelessness of one of the workmen in blowing out a bench lamp he had been using , and putting it in his drawer at 5.30 pm the previous night , without the fire being properly extinguished on the cotton wick . |
| 11 | Tony had been unemployed for 9 months , after the roofing firm he had been working with for a year had gone into liquidation . |
| 12 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 13 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 14 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 15 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 16 | It was a birthday treat he had been looking forward to all week . |
| 17 | Walking slowly through autumn streets he had been wrestling with the ways in which it appeared to him that Coleridge had made use of a now little known book , Ridley 's Tales of the Genii . |
| 18 | He considered the opportunity to participate in the project to have tied in well with curriculum trends he had been supporting across the school : This was something I very much wanted to encourage because I have a worry that in spite of everything one does in schools to make children aware of library facilities and how to use them , I think quite a lot of children may still leave school without personally having experienced the whole process of needing to find something out , going to a person who can tell them where to look , going , looking , finding it , and then using it . |
| 19 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 20 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |