Example sentences of "a [noun sg] he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 2 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 3 | He put aside a newspaper he 'd been going to read and jumped out of his cab . |
| 4 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 5 | And as someone else pointed out yesterday , he always leaves Deane on no matter how unhappy a game he 's been having — against L'pool a brill Wallace came off in the 8 ? th minute , an unsettled-looking Deane stayed on , and the crowd went bananas at Wilko . |
| 6 | The man who killed officer worker Anna McGurk has told a jury he 'd been having an affair with her before her death . |
| 7 | When tea was brought he took out a book he had been reading over his lunch . |
| 8 | Hagans threw down a statement he 'd been holding , and took three paces to the centre of the court before being brought to the floor and marched to the cells , to shouts from the public gallery . |
| 9 | For about a year he 's been analysing abduction experiences , with the aim of putting together a psycho-social profile of the classic victim . |
| 10 | Then the really hard part is persuading the public to listen , because the last thing they want to believe is that the charlatan in the white coat is n't going to give them a cure for cancer , a promise he 's been renewing at regular intervals for the past two hundred years . |
| 11 | Herbert passed me a note he had been writing . |
| 12 | Eventually the pair connected , and Knuckles presented Owens with a track he had been working on with Japanese musician Satoshi Tomii . |