Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] [pron] for " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	He 'd been using it for the Open .
2	He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question .
3	He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it .
4	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 .
5	It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg .
6	He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake .
7	Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days .
8	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 .
9	He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known .
10	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 .
11	Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months .
12	He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’
13	He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king
14	He 's been doing it for years .
15	‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’
16	He 's been doing it for years .
17	He 's been doing it for three years now .
18	He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ?
19	He 's been doing it for twenty years
20	He 's been doin' it for forty years .

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