Example sentences of "he [verb] been [verb] 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 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 3 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 4 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 5 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 6 | Romany King who was second has a great chance for he has been trained for the race by Toby Balding and will have the assistance of Adrian Maguire the big race specialist . |
| 7 | He has been seconded for a year , and his beat is construction , property and hotels . |
| 8 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 9 | By the exhausted mechanical sound of it he has been sobbing for a long time . |
| 10 | If he has been arrested for an arrestable offence , there may also be a power to search his home under section 18 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He has been booked for a series . |
| 14 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 15 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 16 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 17 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 20 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 21 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 22 | Prince Charles said he 'd been waiting for a year for the chance to speak publiclty about the fate of the Marsh Arabs . |
| 23 | And he 'd been braced for the knife lunging out of the darkness . |
| 24 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 25 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Demirel had previously pledged to remove President Özal from power , but on Oct. 24 , possibly influenced by the narrowness of his party 's victory over the ANAP , he declared that Özal might continue as President — an office to which he had been elected for a seven-year term in October 1989 . |
| 28 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 29 | He had been looking for a place to live . |
| 30 | 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 . |