Example sentences of "he have [been] [v-ing] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that he has been using the free post to send out quantities — I do not know how many — of his so-called ’ Annual Report ’ . |
| 2 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 3 | In his letter of resignation to the party leader , Mr Rezsoe Nyers , with whom he has been waging a long-running feud , Mr Nemeth stated he had no option but to resign . |
| 4 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 5 | He has been searching the dark realm , a moving shadow flowing through the looping Interiors ; dark , dimlit , floodlit . |
| 6 | The House will be grateful to the right hon. Gentleman , because he has been making a clear statement and drawing a clear distinction between the two sides of the House . |
| 7 | This week in Georgia he has been keeping a low profile , wrapped up in his own game plan , which is how he best enjoys life , it seems . |
| 8 | Mr Beacham said he has been pressing the British Legion to put Stephen 's name on the role of honour . |
| 9 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
| 10 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 11 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 12 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 13 | At the direction of his lance master , he had been patrolling the ancient forest of Haling Heart , south of Scaraby , for three seasons and had found no quests with which to occupy himself , never mind accrue funds for the order . |
| 14 | He had been receiving an extraordinary number of new birds from Elizabeth 's brothers , Stephen and Charles Coxen , who had emigrated to Australia some years before . |
| 15 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
| 16 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 17 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 18 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 19 | ‘ Hello , love , ’ said her father , coming in from the kitchen where he had been shelling the succulent fresh prawns that would form part of a cold seafood and salad lunch , before the hot turkey dinner this evening . |
| 20 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 21 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
| 22 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
| 23 | Prior to his death , he had been planning a full-scale war with Scotland , calling upon his subjects to raise the revenues for the undertaking . |
| 24 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 25 | He had been keeping a wary eye on Jacques Devraux while he made another laborious copy of the revolutionary tract and he stopped writing to watch the Frenchman walk back to his own quarters . |
| 26 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 27 | He had been carrying a small bag , which he dumped on the table , and she looked at it in disbelief . |
| 28 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 29 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 30 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |