Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb -s] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | For the last two months he has been attending Queen 's Park with his wife Christine and three children . ) |
| 6 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 7 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 11 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 12 | Given some of the feats he has been demonstrating , it is hardly surprising . |
| 13 | At length , the passage he has been stooping along opens out somewhat into a low chamber : he has come to the shrine of a goddess . |
| 14 | Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s . |
| 15 | I raise the delicate question he 's been avoiding . |
| 16 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 17 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 18 | Besides , it will be an opportunity to expound the ideas he has been developing . |
| 19 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 20 | BUCKING THE SYSTEM Lindsey Buckingham It 's been four years since Lindsey Buckingham left Fleetwood Mac , and for the last three of those years he 's been writing , performing and working to complete his new solo album ‘ Out Of The Cradle ’ . |
| 21 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 22 | For three years he 's been training and testing out would be crews … |
| 23 | A one time marine and lifelong sailor Bob Shepton has always wanted to sail around the world … for three years he 's been planning and preparing for this voyage … |
| 24 | For three years he 's been campaigning on behalf of his brother Gary Mills and another man Tony Poole . |
| 25 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 26 | For the past three years he has been building LDP 's contract business in the South of England . |
| 27 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 28 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 29 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 30 | ‘ Got any bright ideas about how to stop Vitor from saying the kind of things he 's been saying ? ’ |