Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 2 | He has been watching a number of wingers in the last three months in a bid to add some firepower to his team , who have scored only 31 goals in 31 League games this season . |
| 3 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 4 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 5 | ( He has been addressing the problem rather more seriously since his wife succumbed after breakfast on her way down the gangplank . ) |
| 6 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |
| 7 | ‘ No , but now you come to mention it , he has been coughing a bit . ’ |
| 8 | But Reid , who is also considering giving brilliant youngster Gary Flitcroft his full debut , stressed : ‘ There is no problem with Steve even though he was substituted on Saturday — to be fair to him he has been fighting a toe injury . ’ |
| 9 | Evidence abounds that he has been approaching the top of his game for the event , following up his second place in the Tournament Players ' Championship , in Florida recently , with a sixth at New Orleans on Sunday . |
| 10 | He has been studying the development of Aplysia from its tiny , free-swimming larval form through a series of intermediate stages to its adulthood , and in particular has mapped the development of the animal 's nervous system and of its behaviour . |
| 11 | Most Saturdays , assuming he has been working the night before , Young is up by 10 am for breakfast with his wife and three children : two teenage boys and Hannah Harley , four , named after his beloved motorbike . |
| 12 | ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … . |
| 13 | Fortified by the support of gleeful Tories and powerful connections ( his brother-in-law is Health Secretary William Waldegrave ; his wife is lady-in-waiting to the Queen ) , he has been cracking the whip . |
| 14 | He has been examining a number of options including staging both on Tuesday September 21 . |
| 15 | Mr. Speaker , Sir , ever since this Minister filled his predecessor 's boots , he has been talking a load of rubbish . |
| 16 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 17 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 18 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |
| 19 | He chuckled to himself , put down the cup he 'd been drinking the water from , wiped his lips . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 21 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 22 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 23 | He 'd been telling the truth . |
| 24 | He felt that if he 'd been wearing a gun , this man would have known . |
| 25 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 26 | He 'd been fighting the prophet , but every time he 'd laid hands on the man , he 'd changed shape , become a cloud , a venomous snake , a wildcat , a mad woman . |
| 27 | He 'd been working too hard in college , and even harder since he 'd been running the farm . |
| 28 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 29 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 30 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |