Example sentences of "he has been [verb] for the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 2 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 3 | Romany King who was second has a great chance for he has been trained for the race by Toby Balding and will have the assistance of Adrian Maguire the big race specialist . |
| 4 | He has been waiting for the right offer for some time after turning down an approach from Italian club Pisa several seasons ago . |
| 5 | He will himself present new data on the cohort of doctors he has been studying for the past 40 years , while his colleagues will review current knowledge on some of the many other topics that he has studied — including the effects on health of oral contraceptives , the parts played by radiation and by asbestos in various cancers , and patterns and trends in mortality . |
| 6 | Although he has had his feet under the desk only since January , he has been preparing for the job since last summer by meeting researchers and officials , visiting institutes abroad and drawing up an initial draft of his plans . |
| 7 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |