Example sentences of "he have been [verb] [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has been trying to unload the firm since last year to help his debt-laden holding company , BTF , and clear the way for him to pursue his political career . |
| 2 | As my son has again won great honour by his composition of the dramatic serenata , he has been asked to write the first opera for the coming carnival in Milan and immediately afterwards the second opera for the Teatro San Benedetto in Venice [ this second commission was never , in fact , carried out ] … |
| 3 | Colm Holmes was highly commended for his presentation of the quiz and he has been invited to chair a six week Christmas quiz at this venue in November/December . |
| 4 | He has been selected to undertake an eight-week lecture tour of Australia under the UK-Australian Teacher Fellowship run through Queen 's University . |
| 5 | He has been known to use a rotary sander to put over his message , not to speak of dancing on broken glass — and no damage done ! |
| 6 | What has happened with him since , since he became more of a big newspaper owner , is he shifted from that and he has been known to support a Labour government in Australia and a Tory government in Britain at the same time and George Bush in the United States while supporting Keating or Bob Hawk in Australia . |
| 7 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 8 | He 'd been beginning to think no one could any more . |
| 9 | But Jim , bless him , had taken it with as little fuss as if he 'd been asked to feed the cat for a couple of days . |
| 10 | It depends on his attitude , if he 'd been trying to pull a fast one on you and er |
| 11 | She knew perfectly well he 'd been trying to hide the fact that he 'd come alive as the streets had filled with people . |
| 12 | He 'd been invited to unveil a plaque to commemorate the restoration , after featuring the bridge in his latest film , Shadowlands . |
| 13 | He 'd been allowed to cross the border . |
| 14 | I was told he 'd been spotted playing the fruit machines at lunch-time . |
| 15 | Mind you if Frank Bough had been a Manchester beauty queen with no previous experience would he have been appointed to front the BBC 's Breakfast Time as was Debbie Greenwood ? |
| 16 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 17 | This was in the foothills of the Mournes , whence he had been sent to take a photograph of bees and beekeeping . |
| 18 | British readers are likely to be particularly interested in the Pearl Harbor chapter , which backs up the story of Dusan Popov , a wartime double agent , that he had been sent to warn the Americans that the Japanese were planning to attack the naval base . |
| 19 | The man had been so embarrassed he had been pretending to study the graffiti on the cell walls . |
| 20 | Colt knew that the target was a thief , that he had been observed entering the Syrian Embassy when that Embassy was under regular Iraqi surveillance . |
| 21 | He had always banked on being good enough to play another Test match , even if he had been made to serve the full five-year ban . |
| 22 | He felt that his trust and position had been taken advantage of : that he had been made to look a fool . |
| 23 | Arkan said he had been elected to protect the Serbians in Kosovo from Albanian terrorists . |
| 24 | He had been trying to reach the doctor they used but the man was out . |
| 25 | For the past twenty years he had been trying to show the ‘ educated classes ’ the merits of Gothic and now found them acknowledged ‘ by the highest authorities in the land ’ . |
| 26 | Since then he had been trying to write the second book . |
| 27 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 28 | ‘ Was he taking it to the person it belongs to ? ’ he asked at last , and it was as though all the time he had been trying to frame the question in a special way . |
| 29 | In logic he had been taught to reach an acceptable conclusion by revising the steps which led to it . |
| 30 | He developed an allergy to a powerful , broad-spectrum antibiotic he had been given to treat an attack of bronchitis . |