Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 2 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 3 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 4 | And he 'd known it , all the time he 'd been trying to bed her . |
| 5 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 6 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence . |
| 7 | He wore an open-neck shirt and trousers that needed pressing , but he 'd apologized for his ‘ unkempt ’ condition when he 'd first greeted them , explaining that he 'd been decorating at home and had pulled on the first things to hand in his haste to get to the waxworks . |
| 8 | I asked him what he 'd been doing out East and he said he 'd been starting up a chain of these shops in Japan . ’ |
| 9 | He also told the court he had been acting in accordance with an order from Allied Forces Headquarters on 14 May 1945 . |
| 10 | Mr Justice Johnson , who jailed the 37year-old Marquess for failing to pay £10,534 to his estranged wife Becky , said he had been acting in excess of his powers when he imposed the sentence . |
| 11 | Recording a verdict that he killed himself by an overdose Liverpool coroner Roy Barter said : ‘ He had been complaining of anxiety and obviously felt vulnerable before Christmas . ’ |
| 12 | He had been fading from importance for some time , had been replaced as Unionist leader in the Lords by Curzon and was not a minister under Lloyd George . |
| 13 | He had been writing on average a poem a week , and by the end of 1941 he had enough poems to form a first volume , The Iron Laurel , but he withheld publication until 1942 in order to include ‘ The Foreign Gate ’ , a long poem in which , for the first time in his work , Death appears as a real presence . |
| 14 | This time his powers of concentration were not helped by the fact that on a hot and humid Sunday afternoon in the Bois de Boulogne he was feeling awful : he had been wasting in order to ride Beaver II at nine stone ten pounds later in the afternoon , and was severely debilitated by a stomach upset which had kept him up all night . |
| 15 | It was a totally inappropriate thing to say , but she was a visitor , and the first since he had been staying at Fern Cottage on his own . |
| 16 | He had been moving towards resignation since being routed by Mr Smith in the July leadership election . |
| 17 | He had been riding in front of Chuck and his father , watching with admiration the erect , narrow-backed figure of Jacques Devraux jogging easily at the head of the column ; the fierce-eyed Frenchman had quickly made a deep impression on Joseph 's fifteen-year-old mind and he was trying to hold his own shoulders high and square in the same fashion . |
| 18 | Before the last Test it seemed that Gooch would return home , annoyed at an article written about his South African connections by Lester Bird , the Deputy Prime Minister of Antigua , and tired of the hostile receptions he had been getting from press and public . |
| 19 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 20 | The abbe liked his claret and he had been fasting during Lent . ’ |
| 21 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 22 | He had been appearing on television at the time . |
| 23 | As Gabriel worked on the top of the ricks , he suddenly remembered that , eight months before , he had been fighting against fire in the same place as desperately as he was fighting against water now — and for love of the same woman , who did not love him . |
| 24 | She knew that he had been doing without luncheon , and now he could afford some . |
| 25 | Who would ever guess from the benign expression on his face that just a moment ago he had been exploding with anger ? |
| 26 | My dinner companions were two Swiss nurses doing a world tour , and Roger Rasmussen , a pensioner front Queensland who said he had been travelling by train for 16 days non-stop . |
| 27 | He had been working at tar Processing and the fumes had given him an unpleasant skin complaint . |
| 28 | Ken , meanwhile , believed he had found a play that suited his temperament and talents better than most of the things on which he had been working to date . |
| 29 | Of course he had been working for Hut 6 from the day of his arrival at Bletchley and his duties soon became important . |
| 30 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |