Example sentences of "[subord] he have been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 2 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 3 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 4 | Although he had been nominated for the presidency by Civic Forum ( of which he was a founder member ) and PAV , it was understood that he would remain strictly neutral in the election campaign . |
| 5 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 6 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 7 | Most of the population have welcomed Mr Mladenov 's reforms , although he has been criticised for leaving some of Mr Zhivkov 's supporters in prominent positions . |
| 8 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 9 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 10 | If he had been working for three days and three nights then it was in the suit he was wearing now , and his shoes had mud on them , and Erlich did n't think Ruane would be impressed . |
| 11 | If he had been briefed for a mission in which he did not participate , he would then have been kept incommunicado until he did finally leave . |
| 12 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 13 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 14 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 15 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 16 | If he 's been travelling for for zero hours , how far has he gone ? |
| 17 | Erm if he 's another easy one is if he 's been travelling for one hour how far has he gone ? |
| 18 | And if he 's been travelling for ten hours , how far 's he gone ? |
| 19 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 20 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |
| 21 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 22 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 23 | Everyone thought Pratesi was the buyer because he 's been talking for years about building a bigger place , rearing his own pigs and growing his own feed . |
| 24 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 25 | The third party is now commonly known as an expert , usually because he has been chosen for his expertise about the issue between the parties . |
| 26 | ‘ Nutrition , ’ John said , after he had been working for a short time . |
| 27 | Now we 've got three points there it 's probably they they give you four here so we 'll do another one erm , when he 's been travelling for five hours how far 's he gone ? |
| 28 | But Maher could not ride Craganour in the Derby as he had been claimed for Lord Rosebery 's Prue , and the favourite was partnered by the American jockey Johnny Reiff . |
| 29 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 30 | Romany King who was second has a great chance for he has been trained for the race by Toby Balding and will have the assistance of Adrian Maguire the big race specialist . |