Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public . |
| 2 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 3 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 4 | All were second-hand , but they were far better than the stinking rags he had been wearing . |
| 5 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 6 | Come and sit down , ’ he invited her , indicating the elegant stone-coloured couch he had been occupying . |
| 7 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 8 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 9 | They were the words he had been wanting to hear and with an exultant roar , and with both arms at once around her , he pulled her close up to him . |
| 10 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |
| 13 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 14 | For some months he had been making his preparations by placing his men in key positions , so that if and when the moment came , the coup would be swift and , he hoped , bloodless . |
| 15 | While waiting around for five months he had been planning to do a story on a particular platoon of sixteen guys , which was very promising at first and the men enthusiastic and helpful . |
| 16 | For several months he had been finding rings of stones , surrounding a large boulder which was often topped with melted wax . |
| 17 | He 'd never seen anyone in Jubilee Wood in all the months he 'd been coming up here . |
| 18 | For the last two months he has been attending Queen 's Park with his wife Christine and three children . ) |
| 19 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 20 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 21 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 22 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 23 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 24 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
| 25 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
| 26 | The trainer now reports : ‘ Arazi is an intelligent horse , much more mature , and in his work he has been doing just what he has to do . ’ |
| 27 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 28 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 29 | William Tidbury stated that on 11 December he had been working until late at a local farm ( this had already been borne out by the farmer ) . |
| 30 | Given some of the feats he has been demonstrating , it is hardly surprising . |