Example sentences of "[noun sg] 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 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . ’ |
| 8 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | I raise the delicate question he 's been avoiding . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |
| 15 | Dr Phillips told you of the zombis he has been studying , I take it ? ’ |
| 16 | Every night this week he 's been playing Hendrix to a packed Ronnie Scott 's in Birmingham . |
| 17 | And as someone else pointed out yesterday , he always leaves Deane on no matter how unhappy a game he 's been having — against L'pool a brill Wallace came off in the 8 ? th minute , an unsettled-looking Deane stayed on , and the crowd went bananas at Wilko . |
| 18 | Acting Detective Superintendent Mick Cox is leading the enquiry he 's been talking to Nigel Bell and telling him they 're convinced that the same girl has made all the phone calls . |
| 19 | All season he has been playing well , putting poorly . |
| 20 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 21 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 22 | ‘ Of course he 's been boozing , ’ said Mrs. Mounce . |
| 23 | He wheels the kind of u-turn he 's been longing to do since he saw it on Hill Street Blues and he roars up to the entrance . |
| 24 | He was not right after the race and did not appear again all season but I like the way he has been stretching out and he could win here before making his mark in middle distance Group company . |
| 25 | It certainly explains the mask and the way he has been avoiding his friends . |
| 26 | ‘ I do n't know why you 're still annoyed with Jeff after the way he 's been helping you . ’ |
| 27 | Like the way he 's been behaving since his father 's death — and the week before , come to that — ’ |
| 28 | ‘ I see it now — it 's that stupid young fool 's idea of a joke , to pay me out for objecting to the way he 's been behaving towards Rose ! |
| 29 | For the last year he 's been setting out his story in his autobiography , a glimpse into decision making during operations like Desert Storm and an insight to his personal life . |
| 30 | For about a year he 's been analysing abduction experiences , with the aim of putting together a psycho-social profile of the classic victim . |