Example sentences of "he have been [verb] [pron] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jones is well known in many parishes of the diocese , as he has been visiting them in helping to organise their planned giving schemes . |
| 2 | He 'd been expecting something like Abbotsfield or the decaying Georgian splendours of St Clement 's Vicarage in Church Row . |
| 3 | He 'd been expecting something like this since Isabel had killed the soldier . |
| 4 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
| 5 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 6 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 7 | Their friendship had straggled on in a passive sort of way ; he 'd been to see her in Brighton and played the romantic flirt , talking of Brief Encounter in the pub and putting his hand on her knee . |
| 8 | Robert said he 'd been to see you in Brno recently ; hope it was a good weekend . |
| 9 | From their position on the block , he 'd been steadying it with his left hand while drawing out a knife with his right . ’ |
| 10 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 11 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 12 | While the timing of the news came as a surprise to him , he said , he had been expecting it since February 1992 . |
| 13 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 14 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 15 | The salutation seemed to open infinite possibilities , and expressed a recognition of his right to travel ; he felt welcomed , and also saw that he had been given something of inestimable value . |
| 16 | He told her he had been given it by Uncle Joe who kept a café up Kilburn way . |
| 17 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 18 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 19 | He had been watching her without a flicker of expression . |
| 20 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 21 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 22 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 23 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 24 | Further enlightenment is delayed until ( 11 ) , which at last explains how the interview came to take place at all ; but again , this information is postponed to the end of the main clause , in the relative clause " on which he had been invited which in turn contains a further relative clause " who happened to know … resident tutor " . |
| 25 | She felt smugly satisfied that she had not fed his ego by asking what he did in London , or any of the other dozen or so questions it looked as if he had been bracing himself for . |
| 26 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 27 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 28 | Allen had been interested in the sack ; she had seen him stooping where the sack was hidden and he had been doing something with it . |
| 29 | If he had been told nothing about the terms of his release , then probably it was Artai 's doing . |
| 30 | That , in itself , was not unusual ; but for once he had been told nothing of the reason for the meeting . |