Example sentences of "he have been [verb] [adv prt] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been cleaning out the fireplace and clearing the flue , neither of which appeared to have been used in years . |
| 2 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 3 | He had been seeking out the spot on which his little brother was strangled and we had encountered the murderer there . |
| 4 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 5 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |