Example sentences of "he [verb] been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 2 | His proud mum met him at Shannon Airport with the news that he has been called up by the Lions as a replacement for winger Ian Hunter . |
| 3 | He is also proud that in 37 years he has never lost a single victim whose life he has been called on to save . |
| 4 | Hence the suggestion in [ 30 ] , but not in [ 23 ] , that the speaker feels that the disappearance of his childhood has no explanation , that he has been tricked out of his childhood . |
| 5 | Well Elsie he has been seen out on Kilmont Farm dismounting without orders quite a few times . |
| 6 | ‘ He has been jumping around with all the other children in the ward . ’ |
| 7 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 8 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 9 | Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15 , who he has been going out with for several months . |
| 10 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 11 | He has been caught up in his club 's poor form , the former English champions having slipped into the bottom half of the Premier League . |
| 12 | weakness : midfield/up front — Nilsen is a defender and Ingebrigtsen is not playing first team futba for City — he has been rented out to norwegian club rosenborg this summer and is now back in city , trying to get a first team place . |
| 13 | Cruising Altitude was so impressive in beating Morley Street at Newbury that he has been backed down to 8-1 for the Champion . |
| 14 | Cruising Altitude was so impressive in beating Morley Street at Newbury that he has been backed down to 8-1 for the Champion . |
| 15 | The strongest argument we 've got is that has got a driving record worse than yours and he has been taken on despite that record . |
| 16 | ‘ In other words he has been taken in by all this ‘ financial advice ’ and guidance . |
| 17 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 18 | He looks wonderful ; prison has fattened him and his cheeks are pink and shiny , as though he has been working out of doors . |
| 19 | From the start of his rugby involvement he has been marked down as one of very high promise . |
| 20 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 21 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 22 | He has been welcomed back with open arms by team-mates who appreciate talent , courage and strong character — we will need all three qualities to overcome the Springboks . |
| 23 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 24 | He has been signed up for War Game , based on a story from the First World War , which will be published before the 80th anniversary of the outbreak of the conflict . |
| 25 | Iago 's first stated reason for hating his master is that he has been passed over in favour of ‘ a great arithmetician ’ , a ‘ counter-caster ’ , Michael Cassio ( Othello , I.i.19–31 ) . |
| 26 | He had fancied being a poet when he was a boy — before he 'd been thrust out into the real world to try to earn a living . |
| 27 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 28 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 29 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 30 | as if he 'd been cut out of tin . |