Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | ( He has been addressing the problem rather more seriously since his wife succumbed after breakfast on her way down the gangplank . ) |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He chuckled to himself , put down the cup he 'd been drinking the water from , wiped his lips . |
| 12 | ‘ 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He 'd been telling the truth . |
| 15 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 'd been working too hard in college , and even harder since he 'd been running the farm . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | At that time , and erm she had n't known anything about it , because he had looked after the benefit , and she thought he 'd been paying the rent . |
| 20 | He had been calculating the girl as a mathematical entry in the equation . |
| 21 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 22 | Mr Clare told his son he had been saving the money he would have spent on his university education for him . |
| 23 | All afternoon he had been monitoring the progress of the Peace Demo from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square and plotting the advance of the National Front from the opposite direction . |
| 24 | Nabiyev , however , claimed that he had been touring the region to meet the population after recent mudslide disasters . |
| 25 | He had been using the 1-iron , even though it was a par-5 , but he was afraid of dropping behind . |
| 26 | For my father had opened his curtains and was sitting , shaved and in full uniform , on the edge of his bed from where evidently he had been watching the sky turn to dawn . |
| 27 | At least one assumed he had been watching the sky , there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering . |
| 28 | Not only that : his was the round , jolly face he had seen in the window the day he had been hit on the head outside the room where he had been watching the Occultation of the Twenty-fourth Imam of the Wimbledon Dharjees . |
| 29 | He had been watching the expression that crossed her face and now his own face closed to a sheet of ice . |
| 30 | On the particular afternoon he decided to end his life he had been watching the marshalling of the fish vans from his office window . |