Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] [v-ing] for [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 2 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 3 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 4 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 5 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 6 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 7 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 8 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 9 | And he had to go and train somewhere down south , but he 's got a he , apparently he 'd been trying for a year and he 's got to Accrington . |
| 10 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 11 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 12 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 13 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 14 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 15 | Howard had , after a quick tour of the TARDIS , retired to his office with a brandy bottle he had been saving for a special occasion . |
| 16 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 17 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 18 | He was inclined to believe he had been looking for an excuse to ring her , which was foolish because he did not need an excuse . |
| 19 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 20 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 21 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 22 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 23 | He seemed eager to talk , as if he had been searching for a listener for some time . |
| 24 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 25 | As the door closed , Zen let out a breath he realized he had been holding for a long time . |
| 26 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 27 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 28 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 29 | Because he thought that he was dealing with the National Press rather than simply a few local people whom he had been ignoring for a considerable time , the Mayor responded to direct questioning , even if he did not change his colours . |
| 30 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |