Example sentences of "he have been [verb] [adv] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 2 | Not surprisingly , he has been enlisted promptly for the Fiji squad for Hong Kong which also arrived last night . |
| 3 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 4 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 5 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 6 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 7 | For once he has been left behind for a singularly devastating moment of pleasure . |
| 8 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 9 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 10 | When he 'd been banging on for several minutes about immigration , infiltration , dilution of the great Anglo-Saxon race and a lot more of the same , I seized the opportunity , rather neatly I thought , to observe that indeed things had come to a pretty pass when the name Patel was as common as Smith in England . |
| 11 | He 'd been waiting there for me , I concluded . |
| 12 | And yes , he 'd been working there for several days . |
| 13 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 14 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 15 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 16 | Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father . |
| 17 | He had been trembling violently for several hours but now no sound came from the place where he lay . |
| 18 | It was as if he had been waiting there for me all my life . |
| 19 | He had carried her in his arms as naturally as if he had been doing so for years , and she had felt right there . |
| 20 | This was partly because Picasso , like Braque , was at this time working largely from memory ; indeed he had been doing so for the past three years . |
| 21 | It was a warm night , and he had been studying hard for some hours . |
| 22 | Mistakenly , he had agreed to let Brompton-Smiley travel with him in the Rolls and discuss the matter of some urgency he had been whining about for the last two days . |
| 23 | He had been coming regularly for almost sixty years , and was only fourteen when he bought his first pony there for £4.10s . |
| 24 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 25 | He 's been looking elsewhere for years . ’ |
| 26 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 27 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 28 | I mean i i i in a sense I think he was , he 's been criticized unfairly for , for this because he he , he copped all the blame for absolute egalitarianism , whereas in fact if , if you look at the details behind it he was aware of the dangers of encroachment on the middle peasant and was warning against that and saying look this should n't happen . |
| 29 | ‘ I 've visited Australia 's one and only organic wine producer at Mudgee where he 's been growing organically for 30 years . |
| 30 | COLBERT : He 's been paid back for dropping in on every human being possible . |