Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [v-ing] [noun] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been taking photographs for ten years and divides his time between Paris and New York , where he was born . |
| 2 | Maurice Adams , General Manager of ACET , has recently returned form Uganda where he has been discussing planning for future projects with ACET 's African Director , Anthony Kasozi . |
| 3 | An Irish internationalist at boys and youths level , he has been playing golf for five years . |
| 4 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 5 | He 'd been receiving treatment for depression and friends believe he committed suicide . |
| 6 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 7 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 8 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 9 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 10 | Although he had been writing letters for months he was still only a quarter of the way through the names beginning with ‘ A , . |
| 11 | One day , after he had been having lessons for some time , his father was called away by the boss : there was a horse in the ditch : it had gone to sleep on the edge and had rolled upside down into the ditch and could n't get out . |
| 12 | He had been photographing O'Keeffe for over five years , and among the 45 prints of her he displayed were extraordinarily candid images of her body , as well as images in which she gestured provocatively , her arms and hands echoing the arrangement of forms in her abstractions , which served as backgrounds . |
| 13 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 14 | He had been playing centre-half for Clapton , alongside Denis Hill-Wood , son of the then Arsenal chairman , when he got a telegram from Clapton 's secretary Harry Kordell . |