Example sentences of "[conj] he have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | Cardiff looked at the blood on his hand , where he had been clutching his chest . |
| 2 | He shivered , remembering a dream where he had been riding north into the mountains with a woman who was not his wife . |
| 3 | On Aug. 27 Dieter Gerhardt , a former commander of the Simonstown naval base , was released from prison where he had been serving a life sentence since 1983 after being convicted of acting as an agent for the Soviet Union [ see p. 32659 ] . |
| 4 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 5 | ‘ We hear you 're a very clever man , shepherd , ’ added Joseph Poorgrass from behind the maltster 's bed , where he had been hiding . |
| 6 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 7 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 8 | The doctor turned away from the fire , where he had been warming his hands . |
| 9 | Liam , who was not with his father when he was killed on Thursday , said he was not sure where he had been going . |
| 10 | St Fachtna , in the olden days , left his precious prayer book in the grass , where he had been sitting reading it . |
| 11 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 12 | At half past midnight , Springfield drew the council of war to a close by pushing back his chair and standing up behind the big desk , where he had been sitting flanked by Grant and Deputy Fenton . |
| 13 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 14 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |
| 15 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 16 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 17 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 18 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 19 | Sir John Menzies had a recurrent dream , especially on the nights when his young wife would not have him in the bed beside her , or he had been drinking late , and he slept in the side bedroom , which was tall and narrow with two pistols perched on nails in the wall . |
| 20 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 21 | Mr Bond told the Federal Court late last year that his assets were worth less than £25,000 , although he had been receiving about £3,000 a month salary from a firm , Metals Exploration Ltd . |
| 22 | Although he had been writing letters for months he was still only a quarter of the way through the names beginning with ‘ A , . |
| 23 | To his surprise , although he had been joking , James took him seriously . |
| 24 | Glass had first started writing music seriously when he was at the University of Chicago , although he had been playing the flute since he was eight . |
| 25 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 26 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 27 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 28 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |
| 29 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 30 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |