Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] his [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 | He has been making his living from music for the last three years . |
| 3 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 4 | Keith Hanger returned to the prison where he 'd been serving his sentence last night . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | His eyebrows would have disappeared if he 'd been wearing his helmet . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He seemed calm , almost as if he had been expecting his deputy 's treachery . |
| 10 | Asked if he had been regarding his voice coaching , she said : ‘ I believe so . ’ |
| 11 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had been moving his body slightly as he came into the shot , and the club head was being thrown slightly off line . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 16 | Cardiff looked at the blood on his hand , where he had been clutching his chest . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had been wearing his Race Train T-shirt , and he had identification in his pocket . |
| 19 | He had been carrying his umbrella but it did little to protect him . |
| 20 | Rostov stopped , aware that he had been indulging his capacity for mental arithmetic for easily twice that period of time . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | The patient was also quite unaware that he had been rubbing his chest just prior to fainting . |
| 23 | ‘ Come in , Hari , sure Cleg will be that glad to see you , he 's been wearing his brother 's boots to work in and them pinching him like the devil . ’ |
| 24 | cos he 's been devoting his life to his wife more |
| 25 | He 's been stuffing his face ever since we left London . |
| 26 | Yes , Mr Chairman , I , erm , I , I , I do appreciate that erm , I 've been invited through Committee er , to go through what I do represent er , the building project erm , on behalf of the economic development , because as you all know , I 'm of course on the economic development before , but er , in the past I 've found that that I have er been , shall we say , relieved of my positions on other er , position , erm , unknownst to myself , and of course I have er , actually turned up on these planning functions and been there , and to me in the past , I have always found that if one is going to be missed one must then , one 's either asked if he wishes to continue , if he 's been doing his job properly , if he does n't do his job properly then it 's only right to replace him . |
| 27 | I think he 's been washing his hair . |
| 28 | He 's been running his shop for the past 30 years , selling everything from garters to saddles ! |
| 29 | He 's been working his time man . |