Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] on his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 8 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |