Example sentences of "he have [been] [v-ing] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ 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 . |
| 6 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 7 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
| 12 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had been carrying a small bag , which he dumped on the table , and she looked at it in disbelief . |
| 18 | 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 ! ’ |
| 19 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 20 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 21 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 22 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 23 | It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid . |
| 24 | he 's been doing a blue track sort of something |
| 25 | ‘ The Tandy shock will prove he 's prepared to use anyone to his own ends and that he 's been leading a double life . ’ |
| 26 | I do n't believe he 's been carrying a huge old-fashioned thing like that around ever since he left . |
| 27 | For the past year , he 's been fighting a massive tumour in his chest with gruelling bouts of chemotherapy and painful lumbar punctures in hospital . |