Example sentences of "[art] [noun] he have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then finally , Paul Reichmann saw the opportunity he had been waiting for in London , a city he fondly recalled from the days when he studied there as a young man . |
| 2 | Poor old Ken Brown , frustrated beyond his tolerance level , slid from the pedestal he had been erecting for himself following early and rebellious years , when , during the Murphy Cup at St. Pierre , his driver and a wooden tee box converged at not inconsiderable speed . |
| 3 | But Pete said that it was n't , because for much of the hour he 'd been doing the same . |
| 4 | He was still wrapped in the cloak he had been wearing when , as a Priest of the Roman Catholic Church , he had gone into the front lines with his men , completely unarmed . |
| 5 | He let the foot he 'd been massaging fall to the floor with a thud , and she winced . |
| 6 | The worry he had been feeling about Janine was replaced by elation . |
| 7 | It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in . |
| 8 | And he started up in the spring and the bucket he 'd been carrying had left a ridge in his hand . |
| 9 | Then she convinced him he was to say no more about leaving and get back to the story he had been working on when the row blew up . |
| 10 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 11 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 12 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 13 | He 'd never seen anyone in Jubilee Wood in all the months he 'd been coming up here . |
| 14 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 15 | They were the words he had been wanting to hear and with an exultant roar , and with both arms at once around her , he pulled her close up to him . |
| 16 | He banged down the rucksack and the basket he had been carrying and looked without liking at the unencumbered Beuno . |
| 17 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 18 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
| 19 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
| 20 | With a curse Withel despatched the assassin he had been fighting . |
| 21 | ‘ Come in , Master Clerk , ’ he called , throwing down the manuscript he had been studying . |
| 22 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 23 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 24 | At length , the passage he has been stooping along opens out somewhat into a low chamber : he has come to the shrine of a goddess . |
| 25 | Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s . |
| 26 | Given some of the feats he has been demonstrating , it is hardly surprising . |
| 27 | She was staring at him , with her great golden eyes , and her expression was so sad and apprehensive that the sight of it shocked him into asking the question he had been trying to ignore . |
| 28 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 29 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 30 | 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 |