Example sentences of "[noun sg] he have been [v-ing] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |
| 2 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 3 | All afternoon he had been monitoring the progress of the Peace Demo from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square and plotting the advance of the National Front from the opposite direction . |
| 4 | He chuckled to himself , put down the cup he 'd been drinking the water from , wiped his lips . |
| 5 | At the last , Britain 's ambassador to Constantinople abandoned the encouragement he had been giving the Turks and advised them to go on negotiating , but by this time neither Britain nor France was in a position to withdraw the backing which they had been giving the sultan . |
| 6 | In the past year he had been restraining the army and trying for a political settlement ; and there have been signs that Tamil extremists may be prepared to talk about autonomy rather than secession . |
| 7 | Mr Clare told his son he had been saving the money he would have spent on his university education for him . |