Example sentences of "he [vb -s] been [v-ing] for the " 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 waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 6 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 7 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 8 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 9 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 10 | Chairman , I 've listened with erm interest to Professor erm weasel words explaining that he did n't mean what he 's been saying for the past three years and trying to explain away what he 's effectively and he might as well admit it a complete volte face worse than that his agreement to an arrangement which he knows is second best . |
| 11 | The Tree has some pretty weird ideas about religion ; he might just swallow the idea he 's been working for the devil all this time . |
| 12 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |