Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] in [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence . |
| 4 | He also told the court he had been acting in accordance with an order from Allied Forces Headquarters on 14 May 1945 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 9 | He 's been laying in bed on his days off has n't he ? |