Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] his [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been stamping his feet impatiently in Gdansk waiting for the call to be Poland 's first non-communist president in more than 40 years . |
| 2 | Fribble , who had been eating his supper with industrious pleasure , said , ‘ I never heard that story until lately , you know . |
| 3 | In the dressing room player coach Greg Downs , another Wembley winner with Coventry back in 1987 , has been building his men up . |
| 4 | The AC contact was n't Shelby 's first ; he 'd been hawking his sports car plans around since the late '50s and among the people he 'd contacted with a view to building his hybrid had been his good friend Donald Healey . |
| 5 | To her annoyance she found that just for a while there , while they had been swimming and afterwards when they 'd first gone into the club , she had actually been enjoying his company . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 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 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 . |
| 9 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 10 | Similarly , upon receiving a client , immediately introduce yourself by name , and preferably also by card , so that in two minutes the client is calling you by your own name and feels you have been handling his business all his life . |
| 11 | ‘ All the rumours are that Jerry 's been bringing his troops back from the east by the train-load . |
| 12 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |
| 13 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |
| 14 | He identified his electricity bill and the telephone bill ( he hoped his colleagues had not been using his phone too much ) and a typewritten envelope which he took to be an advertisement . |
| 15 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 16 | The violinist Nigel Kennedy has been using his talents to help rebuild a pub . |
| 17 | cos he 's been devoting his life to his wife more |
| 18 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
| 19 | Meanwhile , Wright has been transforming his management team , which has recently been completed with the additions of Reg Broughton from ICL , functioning as vice president of OEM sales and marketing and Carl Baldini , a founder of server start-up Enterprise Technology , as vice president of engineering . |
| 20 | CHRIS EUBANK has been wasting his money consulting a public relations company to improve his image . |
| 21 | I 've heard that my brother has been wasting his magic . |
| 22 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 23 | Jane Davis , prosecuting , had earlier told the court that Orchard , of Farringdon , London , had been walking his dog when he saw the girl in a playground in the King 's Cross area one evening last July . |
| 24 | A Tory friend of mine who has been trying to write nice things about the Conservative campaign has been tearing his hair out in desperation , not just because they are doing so badly — but because they deserve to . |
| 25 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 26 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 27 | Sentencing Clarke at Oxford Crown Court , Judge Francis Allen said he took into account he had not been driving his van fast or badly at the time . |
| 28 | But then , he has been checking his lambs , fattening nicely for sale in the byre . |
| 29 | POLLING stations 83 and 84 for the village of Hath Qila lie down a dusty track that must be one of the few roads that has not been metalled in the five years that Mr Rajiv Gandhi has been cosseting his home constituency of Amethi . |
| 30 | Transport Secretary , Paul Channon , has been explaining his actions over Lockerbie to MPs . |