Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] [pos pn] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been grooming his son Kim Jong-il for the succession , but the latter does not enjoy his father 's authority and a power struggle could already be under way . |
| 2 | We met at lunch , once , and since then he has been bombarding my house with letters and phone calls . |
| 3 | He has been making his living from music for the last three years . |
| 4 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 5 | He sounded as though he 'd been expecting my call . |
| 6 | Keith Hanger returned to the prison where he 'd been serving his sentence last night . |
| 7 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |
| 8 | ‘ Mind you , ’ he said , ‘ Mr Shildon did n't say he 'd been searching your property or that he ever believed you had his keys . |
| 9 | His eyebrows would have disappeared if he 'd been wearing his helmet . |
| 10 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
| 11 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 12 | She knew he 'd been studying her face while watching for her reaction . |
| 13 | He seemed calm , almost as if he had been expecting his deputy 's treachery . |
| 14 | He had been causing my friend a great deal of trouble , so , to shut him up , he had you make an implant of the man committing a murder . |
| 15 | Asked if he had been regarding his voice coaching , she said : ‘ I believe so . ’ |
| 16 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 17 | Hubert Thomas , the father of Gordon Thomas , told the Parliamentary Committee of 1893–4 that he had been advising his Committee to buy the Union for some thirty years . |
| 18 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 19 | He had been moving his body slightly as he came into the shot , and the club head was being thrown slightly off line . |
| 20 | He had a strange sensation that for many minutes he had been holding his breath , though he could n't of course have been doing that . |
| 21 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 22 | Cardiff looked at the blood on his hand , where he had been clutching his chest . |
| 23 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 24 | He had been wearing his Race Train T-shirt , and he had identification in his pocket . |
| 25 | From within the arena of armchairs and sofa he had been mirroring her progress about the room , two steps forward to the drinks trolley where she placed her glass , four steps to her eight over to the window , three back on her way to the door again . |
| 26 | He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him . |
| 27 | Rostov stopped , aware that he had been indulging his capacity for mental arithmetic for easily twice that period of time . |
| 28 | He had been visiting her home and when he left he had slipped in the yard , et cetera . |
| 29 | I tried to get him to return my smile , to confess that he had been pulling my leg ; but his brooding face was drained of humour . |
| 30 | He had been making his way past the beach from the tourist information centre to a hotel which they had recommended when he was murdered . |