Example sentences of "[adv] he have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 2 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |
| 3 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 4 | How long he 'd been sleeping rough no one could tell . |
| 5 | Obviously he 'd been doing some kind of a finance deal ; setting up a takeover ; and he 'd lifted some off the top for himself . ’ |
| 6 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 7 | Now he 's been taken ill with this so , she hopes that he do n't and get behind you know but it 's the head in it ? |
| 8 | Because like she said , here he 's been made redundant once , and he stands another chance of just starting |
| 9 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |
| 10 | Since then he had been re-elected six times . |
| 11 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |