Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 2 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 3 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 4 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 5 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 6 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 7 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 8 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 9 | He has been working in this vein since the late Sixties , when only hippies , greens and cranks thought it was important . |
| 10 | Spurs chief executive Terry Venables said : ‘ I 'm thrilled for Gordon because he has been suffering with this ‘ cheat ’ slur hanging over him . |
| 11 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 12 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 13 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 14 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 15 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 16 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 17 | What could he have been doing in that little field but reconnoitring the back premises of the house at the far end — even breaking in , there had been burglaries lately . |
| 18 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 19 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 20 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 21 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 22 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 23 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 24 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 25 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 26 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 27 | He had found the one he had been searching for all those years — the one wavering on the brink of eternal damnation . |
| 28 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
| 29 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 30 | Uriah Colclough , who had seen an angel just like her once when he had been fasting on some religious occasion , thought so too . |