Example sentences of "he have be [v-ing] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 2 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 3 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 4 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 5 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 6 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 7 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 8 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 9 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 10 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 11 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 12 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 13 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 14 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 15 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 16 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 17 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 18 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 19 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 20 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 21 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 22 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 23 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 24 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 25 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 26 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 27 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 28 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 29 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 30 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |