Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | In his letter of resignation to the party leader , Mr Rezsoe Nyers , with whom he has been waging a long-running feud , Mr Nemeth stated he had no option but to resign . |
2 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
3 | The House will be grateful to the right hon. Gentleman , because he has been making a clear statement and drawing a clear distinction between the two sides of the House . |
4 | This week in Georgia he has been keeping a low profile , wrapped up in his own game plan , which is how he best enjoys life , it seems . |
5 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
6 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
7 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
8 | She guessed that Mike Booker would be calling curses down on her head because he 'd been hoping a one-two win at Estoril would clinch the constructors ' championship for Carlisle Flint , quite apart from putting Ace into an unbeatable lead . |
9 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
10 | He had been receiving an extraordinary number of new birds from Elizabeth 's brothers , Stephen and Charles Coxen , who had emigrated to Australia some years before . |
11 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
12 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
13 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
14 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
15 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
16 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
17 | Prior to his death , he had been planning a full-scale war with Scotland , calling upon his subjects to raise the revenues for the undertaking . |
18 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
19 | He had been keeping a wary eye on Jacques Devraux while he made another laborious copy of the revolutionary tract and he stopped writing to watch the Frenchman walk back to his own quarters . |
20 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
21 | He had been carrying a small bag , which he dumped on the table , and she looked at it in disbelief . |
22 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
23 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
24 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
25 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
26 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
27 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
28 | While he had been talking an Arabic serving-woman had silently entered the room . |
29 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
30 | IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday . |