Example sentences of "he [verb] been [v-ing] [pers pn] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Jones is well known in many parishes of the diocese , as he has been visiting them in helping to organise their planned giving schemes . |
| 2 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
| 3 | Jesus had been , with his disciples and he had spent the whole day in teaching and preaching to the people , he 'd been explaining to them what the kingdom of God was like , he 'd been telling them some of the parables that perhaps we 're familiar with , he 'd been telling them about the parable of the sewer and the seed , the man who went out and he sewed his seed and different things went wrong birds came and picked up the stuff that fell by the wayside , some fell on stony ground and it could n't put down any roots , some fell amongst thorns and they were quickly choked , but some did fall in good prepared soil and that grew . |
| 4 | He 'd been using it for the Open . |
| 5 | From their position on the block , he 'd been steadying it with his left hand while drawing out a knife with his right . ’ |
| 6 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 7 | He had been monopolising her for most of the evening , or trying to , and she was growing less and less happy about it . |
| 8 | While the timing of the news came as a surprise to him , he said , he had been expecting it since February 1992 . |
| 9 | Oh , but this is the Niersteiner , the last bottle , and it would n't go very well with beef ’ He had been saving it for Sophia 's birthday . |
| 10 | It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg . |
| 11 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 12 | Another thing , perhaps , we should notice right at the very beginning is that Jesus did n't actually speak in pa , in in er , in chapters , and they 've lost , they 've been put in for our convenience , and chapter fifteen is not the beginning of a new incident Jesus had already been speaking to the people , he had been teaching them in chapter fourteen . |
| 13 | He had been watching her without a flicker of expression . |
| 14 | He had been watching her for a long time before she realised he was awake . |
| 15 | ( He had been watching her in the shaman 's lodge earlier ! |
| 16 | Zakir thanked me and then quietly revealed that he had been watching me for several days . |
| 17 | Hastily she searched for her purse in her bag , recalling part of their earlier conversation when he had been escorting her around the park . |
| 18 | He had been pestering him for a while for stories about the grandparents he had never known . |
| 19 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 20 | Whereupon he tried it stante pede , shoved the stool away and played standing at the organ , at the same time working the pedal , and doing it all as if he had been practising it for several months . |
| 21 | He 's been hiding me for the last couple of days . ’ |
| 22 | He 's been telling them at the public house that you 'll help his noble family become great again . |
| 23 | Well he 's been helping me with things . |
| 24 | ‘ He 's been helping them with background about MacQuillan , ’ she said . |
| 25 | He 's been doing it for centuries and now he thinks he 's king |
| 26 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 27 | ‘ Probably , but he 's been doing it for years . ’ |
| 28 | He 's been doing it for years . |
| 29 | He 's been doing it for three years now . |
| 30 | He 's been doing it for quite a while now has n't he ? |