Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He defends himself saying that ‘ for nearly thirty years ’ he has been using black and white and that , what is more , the Documenta logo was also black and white . |
| 2 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 3 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 4 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 5 | In the vestry and in his bungalow , under the pretext of extra rehearsal , he has been fondling these big brown girls and offering them cigarettes and money for sex . |
| 6 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 7 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 8 | He has been undergoing expensive treatment and is trying to raise cash for the Ray Kennedy Trust Fund to help sufferers of the disease . |
| 9 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 10 | The problem is I do n't know where he has been placing these shot . |
| 11 | One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government , he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign , chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences , and another on his marginal Copeland constituency , travelling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend . |
| 12 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 13 | He has been studying German football , and Cologne in particular on satellite TV for the past few weeks . |
| 14 | He has been studying this rare British plant since WWF funded his first project three years ago . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | I am told he has been preparing some appropriate acts . |
| 17 | But as Ian McGeechan himself said : ‘ He has been playing some of the best rugby of his life . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 19 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 20 | He 'd been screwing all day and he 'd walk into the camp fucking going |
| 21 | In ‘ Downtown Beirut ’ , the boozery next door to the infamous ‘ Village Idiot ’ on 10th St. , ( where two Pogues ' albums continually rotate on the juke box ) , a dastardly plan was hatched to kidnap Strummer from out of the ‘ Seven B ’ bar , where he 'd been drinking all week , and substitute him onstage with Joe Hurley . |
| 22 | And he 'd been getting worse , no doubt about that . |
| 23 | But lately he 'd been concealing this whiff with his favourite aftershave , Rampage . |
| 24 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 25 | He 'd been expecting tight security at the entrance , but in the event the gates were open and unmanned , and a passing employee directed him along a concrete road leading to the garage where a man in blue overalls was washing one of the Fiat saloons . |
| 26 | And there was the gatepost Dad had driven into because he 'd been eyeing some young girl instead of looking where he was going . |
| 27 | ‘ You do n't know who he is , but last night in the pub you asked Mr Hatton if he 'd been seeing much of McCloy lately . |
| 28 | The same old crowd , but he 'd been seeing much less of them . |
| 29 | He 'd been smoking 50 a day for 40 years . |
| 30 | Apparently he 'd been telling all the other English teachers about it and now they all wanted their classes to see and hear about Hadwick 's owl . |