Example sentences of "he have been [adv] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been repeatedly calling for his ‘ daddy ’ thought to be his maternal grandfather . |
| 2 | According to colleagues , he has been seriously complaining for years about the parasitic passivity of arts television , which simply points a camera at a performance conceived and organised by someone else . |
| 3 | He had been widely criticised for his handling of the Birmingham Six appeal in 1988 and has seen a number of earlier convictions overturned as police evidence was discredited in the Appeal Court . |
| 4 | He had been fully retired for three years and happily occupied with reading and local committee work before Pat retired as home help supervisor for a London borough . |
| 5 | It may be that if he had been actively working for Balston Ltd his activities might have been in breach of his implied duty of fidelity . |