Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 2 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 3 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 4 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 5 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 6 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 7 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 8 | He shivered , remembering a dream where he had been riding north into the mountains with a woman who was not his wife . |
| 9 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 10 | He started collecting as a child and he 's been buying ever since . |
| 11 | He would have posed the same question if he had been sitting in her position . |
| 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 | Mrs Hindle said : ‘ He was so pleased with his bike and he has been itching to get outside and play on it . |
| 14 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 15 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 16 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the recent adjournment is to allow the provisional liquidator to formalise details of the compensation package that he has been negotiating with the Government of Abu Dhabi . |
| 17 | This , combined with the previous episode , created suspicion that he had been malingering to avoid going into action and resulted in his being charged with cowardice . |
| 18 | De Gaulle recognized that the crisis that he had been anticipating since 1946 had finally arrived . |
| 19 | ( Charles also got the message that he was n't going to get the quick slurp of wine at the end of the evening that he had been promising himself . ) |
| 20 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 21 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 24 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |
| 25 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 26 | All the while that he had been speaking , he had used the same flat , expressionless tone . |
| 27 | Half of the salary disappeared in mess fees and for the headquarter 's servants , but Sharpe still felt rich , and it was a far better reward than the two shillings and ninepence a day that he had been receiving as a half-pay lieutenant . |
| 28 | ‘ It came out in the court that he had been robbing old ladies … confidence trickster was the word . |
| 29 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 30 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |