Example sentences of "[prep] [noun sg] he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 2 | ‘ Of course he 's been boozing , ’ said Mrs. Mounce . |
| 3 | He reached behind him , lifted the pint of porter he had been drinking and began to sip it , making no effort to move . |
| 4 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
| 5 | He marched straight up to Nina and , pointing to his chest , said : ‘ Je suis Modigliani , Juif , Jew ’ , and unrolled a roll of newspaper he had been carrying . |
| 6 | General Carson laid down the slip of paper he had been studying and looked at the colonel seated across the table from him . |
| 7 | She found him uncouth and dirty and he often smelt of abattoirs and of the chicken carcases or sides of beef he had been painting . |
| 8 | He remembered a piece of music he had been carrying around in his head for years and bragged that he knew a better tune . |
| 9 | He wheels the kind of u-turn he 's been longing to do since he saw it on Hill Street Blues and he roars up to the entrance . |
| 10 | In fact he had been churning them out all along . |
| 11 | She 'd had a fever since last night , and all day at school he 'd been thinking about her . |
| 12 | Throughout the whole sequence , from the first musings to the final decision , he has been reacting spontaneously to what step by step he has been learning . |