Example sentences of "he have [be] [v-ing] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 2 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 3 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 4 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 5 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 6 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 7 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 8 | Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine . |
| 9 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 10 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 11 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 12 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 13 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 14 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 15 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 16 | Spurs chief executive Terry Venables said : ‘ I 'm thrilled for Gordon because he has been suffering with this ‘ cheat ’ slur hanging over him . |
| 17 | He has been suffering from gastric flu . |
| 18 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 19 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 20 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 21 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 22 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 23 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 24 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 25 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 26 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 27 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 28 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 29 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 30 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |