Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [v-ing] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 2 | He has been watching a number of wingers in the last three months in a bid to add some firepower to his team , who have scored only 31 goals in 31 League games this season . |
| 3 | ‘ No , but now you come to mention it , he has been coughing a bit . ’ |
| 4 | But Reid , who is also considering giving brilliant youngster Gary Flitcroft his full debut , stressed : ‘ There is no problem with Steve even though he was substituted on Saturday — to be fair to him he has been fighting a toe injury . ’ |
| 5 | ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … . |
| 6 | He has been examining a number of options including staging both on Tuesday September 21 . |
| 7 | Mr. Speaker , Sir , ever since this Minister filled his predecessor 's boots , he has been talking a load of rubbish . |
| 8 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |
| 9 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 10 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 11 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 12 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 13 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 14 | He 'd been making a living , that was all , and now he was going to swing for it because the fucking book would n't fucking burn ! |
| 15 | Ron said that he 'd been preparing an obituary of Lord Mountbatten for some time , that Mountbatten had somehow got wind of it and had approached the BBC with a view to taking part . |
| 16 | As Father Johnson approached the altar , the man for whose soul he prayed was writing a letter , not more than a couple of miles away . |
| 17 | He had been scouring a pan , but now put it on another jerry-can to drain , alongside two clean plates . |
| 18 | ‘ He had been acting a bit strangely recently . ’ |
| 19 | He had been drinking a lot of beer , but he says he heard cries . |
| 20 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 21 | He had been trying a pipe recently , but was not making much progress . |
| 22 | I picked one of them up and was struck to the heart , for it was obvious that he had been writing a lot of poetry , all of it , so it seemed to me , very good . |
| 23 | In the meantime he had been pursuing a policy of rationalizing the trade by buying patent and grain distillery businesses that were in difficulty , collaborating closely with the large blending houses . |
| 24 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 25 | The plaintiff would have suffered the injuries even if he had been wearing a belt . |
| 26 | His injuries were worse than they would have been if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 27 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 28 | A lunch with the Capo dello Squadro Anti-Terrorismo that he had been waiting a year for , a session with a good guy in the Guardia di Finanze , and a squash game with Dieter who was number two to the Legal Attaché , and he just did n't know whether he 'd be back before the Little League All Stars trip to Naples and the game against the Sixth Fleet which was the high point of the season which they played now courtesy of the Italian sunshine into late fall . |
| 29 | Mungo had the impression that he had been waiting a lifetime to answer that question . |
| 30 | He had been planning a trip to Jamaica before he left for France . |