Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dziekanowski did not play at Wembley last summer — he was suspended after walking out on his then club Legia Warsaw — but clearly he is in the mood to test the English defenders whom Bobby Robson has been casting as his unsung heroes . |
| 2 | Dr. Kumar , the 35-year-old research scientist , who is single and lives in Marton , has been campaigning on his short but busy record as an MP . |
| 3 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 4 | ‘ Arazi has been working like his old self and I hope he can go back to America for the Breeders Cup and win like he did last year . ’ |
| 5 | An arctic explorer has been preparing for his latest expedition by spending the weekend in a freezer . |
| 6 | But Price , who has been waiting for his first major title since blowing the British Open ten years ago , said : ‘ I learned from his example , watching his Open triumph at Muirfield . ’ |
| 7 | The first , that with so much burnt umber on his hands he looked as though he 'd been playing with his own shit . |
| 8 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |
| 9 | Scathach had been telling about his first journey through the wood . |
| 10 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 11 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 12 | Nicholas had been living with his widowed mother in London . |
| 13 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 16 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 17 | He had been acting in his departmental role , gathering information for Mr Parkinson , when he contacted Eurotunnel . |
| 18 | The courtheard Mr James had been arguing with his pregnant girlfriend 16 year old Jessie Barnes at the time . |
| 19 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 20 | Dustin had been working at his antique desk all morning on contact sheets of his wedding pictures , taken almost a year before , trying to pick out the ones to develop . |
| 21 | The pensioner had been caring for his sick wife and had been able to make the US trip only because she had been taken into a nursing home to allow him to have the break . |
| 22 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 23 | We talk to him about the inner turmoil he had been feeling during his long drought and about his high hopes for the future . |
| 24 | Before leaving England he had been hankering after his American roots , not only in those sections of Ash-Wednesday which recall the New England coast , but also in his prose , invoking , for instance , his old master Josiah Royce , who was now mostly forgotten , ‘ but a great philosopher in his day ’ . |
| 25 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |