Example sentences of "[adj] man have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 2 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 3 | For the past half-hour the little man had been giggling to himself as he stropped a Buck knife razor-sharp on the inside of his belt . |
| 4 | Among the former are many participles , both present and past : ( 26 ) the watching crowd started to laugh he was greeted by smiling well-wishers the injured man had been feeding the orang-utan but participles do not exhaust the possibilities : ( 27 ) the angry bartender slammed the drink down five empty tumblers were standing by his elbow Notice , too , the clear ambiguity of : ( 28 ) a flashing light as meaning either a light which is flashing on some particular occasion , or one which normally has this characteristic . |
| 5 | The tall man had been leaning against the stable 's open gates , but straightened up as Lucille appeared from the house . |
| 6 | The young man had been standing on the platform at Portslade station in East Sussex yesterday shortly before the London to Brighton train passed . |
| 7 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 8 | The young man has been living in the USA . |
| 9 | The game the young man has been playing , however , is not baseball but exorcism . |
| 10 | The dead man had been renting the house on the quiet estate for 18 months . |
| 11 | Dr Bob Cooper gave medical evidence and , according to my shaky shorthand outline , the dead man had been suffering from sexual depression . |