Example sentences of "[been] [v-ing] his [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Fribble , who had been eating his supper with industrious pleasure , said , ‘ I never heard that story until lately , you know . |
| 2 | He 'd been helping his wife to , she must work for the council and he 'd been helping her and he said er the matron at Comfort House had asked and he , and he 'd noticed Jim 's name on when he delivered ours so he knew where they could , he 'd take them . |
| 3 | A client is not easily detached from a solicitor who has been handling his affairs over a period of years , but a comparatively mild solicitation may deprive an insurance broker of valuable business which otherwise might safely be reckoned on for a period . |
| 4 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |
| 5 | He has been gathering his facts on and off ever since and now they are available to us all in his book The Wheatear , a truly classic study of every aspect of the wheatear 's lifestyle . |
| 6 | Ellis denied he was a ‘ pimp ’ and had no idea the youngster may have been using his premises for her work . |
| 7 | cos he 's been devoting his life to his wife more |
| 8 | Theo had been confiding his disappointment with the way his life was turning out , and Vincent quickly swept in with an indictment : ‘ It seems to me that the whole art business is rotten . ’ |
| 9 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 10 | A coalman , Mr Martin Phipps , had been driving his lorry along the downs at Chartham at 7.25am on Tuesday when he noticed a Jaguar XJS parked in a chalkpit , said PC Burden . |
| 11 | Transport Secretary , Paul Channon , has been explaining his actions over Lockerbie to MPs . |
| 12 | ‘ Sir , we have been seeking his permission for a long time ; he will not give it . |
| 13 | Francis Graham Dixon has been operating his gallery in Clerkenwell for five years . |
| 14 | He could have been warning his receptionist off the line or switching off — or on — a recording device . |
| 15 | There had been times , after all , while he 'd been serving his stretch in prison that he really had wondered whether he had hallucinated it all ; wondered whether he was losing his mind . |
| 16 | Had he been expressing his doubts about her to Matt ? |
| 17 | RIGHT : Chief teacher Kenny Roberts has been scaring his pupils for years with his killer look . |
| 18 | But , as she all at once realised that he thought , actually thought , that she had been pumping his secretary about him , so a tide of pink warmed her cheeks , and , ‘ Nothing ! ’ she exclaimed hotly , more startlement hitting her as it dawned on her that this then was the reason for his fury when he 'd seen them together . |
| 19 | " Hanslick and others " had indeed found it difficult to place Wagner 's achievements , and furthermore Wagner 's own explicit interpretation of his ideal had in recent years been shifting in an enigmatic way that impelled his articulate young admirer to offer his own clarification : here was one of those " aesthetic problems " which had been occupying his mind for some time . |
| 20 | Jones responded by reminding everyone that the DOE had been funding his work for nearly three years already , that he had positive results ready to publish , that the DOE funding agent had encouraged him to go ahead and that he was due to speak about them at the Spring Meeting of the American Physical Society in Baltimore during 1–4 May . |
| 21 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 22 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 23 | It 's a subject Mark Phillips has been getting his teeth into . |
| 24 | Nothing of her true nature , not even — and here Pavel had been holding his breath at the back of the Border Control 's interrogation room — where she 'd been living for the past two years . |
| 25 | He 'd been buying his clothes at Acme Attractions up the road — a stall which generally did exactly the same as Malcolm only six months later , and were quite open about it . |
| 26 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 27 | Been blowing his nose in , in the toilet . |
| 28 | He 's been running his shop for the past 30 years , selling everything from garters to saddles ! |
| 29 | Either he has just woken up or he has been grinding his face into his pillow . |
| 30 | Thus it was that his greatest hurdle to date had been asking his lordship for a job . |