Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] been [verb] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
| 2 | The objections to assessing whether the hearing would have made a difference are not confined to those expressed by Megarry J. A superior court in the context of review is not in a good position to calculate whether a hearing would have made a difference , and to do so could well leave the individual with the feeling that he has not been afforded any opportunity of controverting the public body 's view . |
| 3 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 4 | But Mike was hurting too much already from the blow that had split his nose ; he 'd never been hit that hard . |
| 5 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 6 | However , the following month the Dalai Lama met with United States President Bush in Washington , although on previous visits to the USA he had not been granted such a meeting ; China made a strong protest to the USA . |
| 7 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 8 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 9 | Yet he had n't been told this highly relevant fact . |
| 10 | But if , if he had n't been doing that |
| 11 | Well at least she 's , he had n't been doing enough work somehow ! |
| 12 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 13 | She knew he had n't been paying any attention to the play . |
| 14 | Yet he had never been assigned any lands from which he might maintain himself and his Queen in their proper estate . |
| 15 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 16 | ‘ The way you and he have just been pawing each other about just has to mean that , in your own sweet way , ’ he inserted thunderously , ‘ you 've been endorsing the fact that your affair with him is over ! ’ |
| 17 | We 've er , he 's just been getting all the photos stuck down on those cards . |
| 18 | ‘ We talked about football but all he wanted to talk about was sex , ’ she said , before adding , ‘ I hear he 's not been scoring many goals recently and that 's why he left Arsenal , but all I can tell you is he certainly scored a hat-trick with me that night . ’ |
| 19 | He 's obviously been doing that since your pregnancy , yet you 've only just begun to notice how little he confides in you . |