Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb -s] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently he 's been working in Australia , on oil rigs , I believe . ’ |
| 2 | Perhaps he 's been listening to it , too , and thinking of me . |
| 3 | All he has been trying to do is to trying to ensure that there 's been even-handed play here on all the stadium sites and it 's disgraceful that his name has been dragged into this ! |
| 4 | So he 's been having at |
| 5 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
| 6 | Lately he has been working on paintings of trees , large-sized drawings of nudes , painted low-reliefs in wood and a series of portraits of poets in which snippets from their work are inscribed ( Beats Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appear in the show ) . |
| 7 | He 's been standing up he 's been standing up there |
| 8 | For a year now he 's been trying to avoid packaged and drilled TV appearances , and enduring repetitive questions from bemused Europeans about sampling or acid house But he 's still managed to have some fun . |
| 9 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 10 | For 17 years now he has been hovering — camera at the ready — on the edge of parties , outside nightclubs or in restaurant doorways . |
| 11 | Now he has been talking of being ‘ more in control ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ Well , ’ she said , ‘ It turns out he 's been syphoning money off the firm . |
| 13 | Today he 's been celebrating his thirtieth birthday , but quietly , in his stable . |
| 14 | Yeah well he 's been looking after her for , for years ai n't he ? |
| 15 | Well he 's been helping me with things . |
| 16 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 17 | In Midnight Run he was fine , but since then he 's been cranking them out , turning in performances which are almost parodic rehashes of the masculine confusions and bullish challenges of his past roles . |
| 18 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 19 | Since then he 's been fighting to prove his innocence . |
| 20 | Since then he 's been waiting for him higher up on various tracks . |
| 21 | We met at lunch , once , and since then he has been bombarding my house with letters and phone calls . |
| 22 | Mr Duff said : ‘ His life all went wrong in 1986 but since then he has been putting it back together again . ’ |
| 23 | The guy relays how he 's been fantasising about you while with his new girlfriend , so you invite him over to do the wild thing . |
| 24 | Now , he finds people are beginning to be more open about their sexuality , and consequently he has been promoting the activities of the centre for sexual problems in Istanbul . |
| 25 | Sometimes , when he has been working in the garden , he will come in and sit down , then out again and does a bit more . |
| 26 | Former England coach John Elders has agreed to help Northern next season on his return from Australia , where he has been teaching . |
| 27 | Maurice Adams , General Manager of ACET , has recently returned form Uganda where he has been discussing planning for future projects with ACET 's African Director , Anthony Kasozi . |
| 28 | Last night , his father Ian flew in from Oman , where he has been working , to be near his son . |
| 29 | The problem is I do n't know where he has been placing these shot . |
| 30 | Well I think no greater no other individual but Paddy Ashdown has been providing a healthy lead , but sadly it 's one where he 's been citing a a an approach to Bosnia one month . |