Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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1 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
2 | 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 . |
3 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
4 | Come and sit down , ’ he invited her , indicating the elegant stone-coloured couch he had been occupying . |
5 | 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 . |
6 | 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 . |
7 | 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 . |
8 | 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 . |
9 | 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 . |
10 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
11 | 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 . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
14 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
15 | 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 . |
16 | 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 . ’ |
17 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
18 | 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 . |
19 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
20 | His brow cleared after the terrific mental exercise he 'd been putting in . |
21 | He banged down the rucksack and the basket he had been carrying and looked without liking at the unencumbered Beuno . |
22 | ‘ Come in , Master Clerk , ’ he called , throwing down the manuscript he had been studying . |
23 | She was staring at him , with her great golden eyes , and her expression was so sad and apprehensive that the sight of it shocked him into asking the question he had been trying to ignore . |
24 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
25 | I raise the delicate question he 's been avoiding . |
26 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |
27 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
28 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
29 | With a curse Withel despatched the assassin he had been fighting . |
30 | 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 . |