Example sentences of "he have 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 . |
| 8 | He said he 'd been followed for the last week or so . |
| 9 | Just as hapless as the plundering Norse overlord he 'd been playing for the past few weeks ! |
| 10 | But that was what he 'd been doing for the past several minutes . |
| 11 | And he 'd been braced for the knife lunging out of the darkness . |
| 12 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 13 | This was it , the confrontation-point which he had been dreading for the best part of a week . |
| 14 | He had been looking for the Face of Death . |
| 15 | He had been looking for the omen Heather might have nerved herself to disregard . |
| 16 | Wordsworth 's poetic fluency had never been greater , and the landscape near Tintern Abbey , revisited after an absence of five years , released from him a stream of meditative blank verse quite different in style from the humble poems of rural life he had been writing for the Lyrical Ballads . |
| 17 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 18 | Then Andy took his wedge , which he had been swinging for the last ten minutes , and hit the perfect , or apparently perfect shot , straight at the flag . |
| 19 | He had been waiting for the spirit warrior his father had told him of in infancy , the One-Eyed White Girl . |
| 20 | He said he had been paid for the picture , but admitted that ‘ in order to entice bidders ’ he had agreed with Sotheby 's that payment would be spread over three instalments . |
| 21 | In the following year his son-in-law ( Sir ) John Wolley [ q.v. ] told him that he had been recommended for the vice-presidency of Wales . |
| 22 | Although he had been nominated for the presidency by Civic Forum ( of which he was a founder member ) and PAV , it was understood that he would remain strictly neutral in the election campaign . |
| 23 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 24 | He had been pressing for the opportunity to abandon himself , free of dogma , and here it was . |
| 25 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 26 | He had been working for the Cyrenians at an annex to the Simon House Hostel for the Homeless in Rectory Road Oxford . |
| 27 | His games connection that year was more than just a marketing one ; it was also the third time he had been chosen for the Scotland team as a pole-vaulter . |
| 28 | And who was it who said that when he agreed to play the Devil in the Witches of Eastwick , it was because he had been practising for the role all his life ? |
| 29 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 30 | He 's been waiting for the past half-hour . ’ |