Example sentences of "he have been [verb] on " in BNC.
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| 1 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 2 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 3 | He has been seated on his horse since 1916 , when he was installed , contemplating a chaos he would never have allowed from his soldiers . |
| 4 | He has been bailed on several sureties and appears in court tomorrow . ’ |
| 5 | Clint says he has been sitting on the story of Unforgiven for 15 years waiting to grow into the part but denies that this could be the last time he saddles up and rides off into the sunset . |
| 6 | He has been sitting on a nurse 's knee being fed from a small drinking cup . ’ |
| 7 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 8 | He has been suspended on full pay . |
| 9 | ‘ Recently he has been working on American films and he was very keen to get back home and work with some of his old mates . |
| 10 | Lately he has been working on paintings of trees , large-sized drawings of nudes , painted low-reliefs in wood and a series of portraits of poets in which snippets from their work are inscribed ( Beats Alan Ginsberg and Gregory Corso appear in the show ) . |
| 11 | ‘ He has been playing on the right side and doing very well , ’ said Bingham who has always been a Black admirer . |
| 12 | He has been released on conditional bail . |
| 13 | Quick-thinking James , 20 , switched off the gas and collected a damp cloth , while Darren used the fire-fighting techniques he 'd been learning on his weekend course in Surrey to tackle the blaze . |
| 14 | Digging might not be classed as essential training , but he 'd been sent on attachment to learn all about real soldiering . |
| 15 | And he worked it out , he took about three or four weeks to work it out , and he 'd been overcharged on the interest like . |
| 16 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 17 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 18 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 19 | He 'd been released on bail by Cheltenham magistrates after being charged with raping a twenty year old woman . |
| 20 | He 'd been sitting on his fanny for three months now and here was a chance to do something . |
| 21 | Philip rubbed the mist off the glass where he 'd been breathing on it . |
| 22 | He 'd been smashed on booze once or twice , but this was different . |
| 23 | ‘ Well , he sounded surprised and a bit worried — as if he 'd been caught on the hop . ’ |
| 24 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 25 | So , he 'd been spying on her , had he ? |
| 26 | He 'd met Romano de Sciorto through researching the book he 'd been planning on the history of the islands . |
| 27 | So , he 'd been planning on cutting the test sessions short , had he ? |
| 28 | The story was , that unused to concealing money about his person , he had been robbed on the train and had had to return home . |
| 29 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 30 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |