Example sentences of "he have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 32 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 33 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 34 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 35 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 36 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 37 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 38 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 39 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 40 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 41 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 42 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 43 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 44 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 45 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 46 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 47 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll , and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home . |
| 48 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 49 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
| 50 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 51 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 52 | All performed creditably and indeed Patel was such a revelation that onlookers must have wondered why he had been languishing in other teams for so much of the season . |
| 53 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 54 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |
| 55 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 56 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 57 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 58 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 59 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 60 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |