Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] in the " in BNC.
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| 1 | In many cases success for one of our runners has meant a breakthrough in a problem with which he has been struggling in the classroom . |
| 2 | But when I put the phone down I find he has been standing in the doorway . |
| 3 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
| 4 | He has been playing in the local Welsh leagues , has represented West Indies ‘ B ’ and is being keenly monitored by the county . |
| 5 | After all , he 'd been ferreting in the records for a good while . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd been sitting in the car so long , it was hard for him to run . |
| 7 | By comparison , what he 'd been doing in the cafeteria block was mere journeyman stuff . |
| 8 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 9 | He 'd been working in the welded body section at the time . |
| 10 | He had been drinking in the St Heliers Tavern , got into a fight , and was last seen out side . |
| 11 | He had been shouting in the open air for more than ten minutes and to no great avail . |
| 12 | He had been touring in the liberated areas trying to get agriculture going again . |
| 13 | Lij Yasu was arrested four days later near the Sandfords ' farm ; he had been wandering in the Muger valley with a few retainers , hungry and terrified . |
| 14 | Barry Stewart , defending , said Gregory 's plea was based on the fact that he had been helping in the retention of the items . |
| 15 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
| 16 | He had been sitting in the post all morning , waiting , as they all were , British and Americans alike , for Zack 's latest and maybe last call . |
| 17 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 18 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 19 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 20 | He had been standing in the kitchen for a long time . |
| 21 | I think he 's been drinking in the pub cos I can smell it on his breath . |
| 22 | He 's been sleeping in the spare room , you see , but when you turned up last night , he moved back in . |
| 23 | For three years with the help of a team of fundraisers he 's been hauling in the costs of sixty thousand pounds |