Example sentences of "he have [be] [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 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 7 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 8 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 9 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 10 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 11 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |
| 18 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 19 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |
| 20 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 21 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 22 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |
| 23 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 24 | Since his recovery , he 's been running for the Cancer Research Campaign . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |