Example sentences of "he [verb] been [v-ing] this " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been studying this rare British plant since WWF funded his first project three years ago . |
| 2 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd been wearing this over the shirt he wore for the sitting , ’ Edwards said , ‘ and at the end of the last sitting just as he was leaving , as an afterthought , he said , ‘ Oh you better have this ’ and took it off and gave it to me , like the end of a football match . ’ |
| 4 | Well I mean I , apparently he 'd been giving this , this guy stick like all day . |
| 5 | ‘ From the expression on Rik 's face , you would think he 'd been doing this sort of stuff all his life , ’ Gerald says . |
| 6 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 7 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 8 | He had been dreading this . |
| 9 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 10 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 11 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 12 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 13 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 14 | When he used to write music he used to have different tunings for almost every song , but he 's been doing this now for the last five to seven years — the E string tuned down to D. If I have to play guitar on a song where he 's played guitar , I just learn it my way , using traditional tuning . ’ |
| 15 | he 's been paying this bloke thirty quid , then he said twenty quid , today he said sixteen quid |