Example sentences of "his [noun sg] have [be] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like him , lying underneath that mini … his heart had been going overtime then , thinking of the law closing down on him . |
| 2 | His story had been absorbing and very revealing ; it was difficult to relate it to the other , more menacing side of him . |
| 3 | Philip shut the window and took the camouflage jacket his Mum had been going to throw out . |
| 4 | A few minutes later , as he turned right into the Banbury Road , now beginning to think once more with some semblance of rationality , Morse considered whether his witness had been telling him the whole truth . |
| 5 | ‘ His department has been saying to us in recent weeks that we could not have the classrooms and toilets we need because there are empty places in other schools . |
| 6 | His next move was to Madrid , an upheaval that he and his girlfriend had been planning for some time , and there his photographic education continued apace , despite one or two minor problems . |
| 7 | His mind had been working on ideas for an operation against Pearl Harbor and when the United States Pacific fleet sailed to Hawaii on April 2 , 1940 for manoeuvres Yamamoto followed their progress closely . |
| 8 | ‘ He said he thought his mummy had been having car trouble because she had n't turned up . |
| 9 | Due to the fact that his marriage had been heading for the rocks ? |
| 10 | ‘ It 's absolute rubbish to suggest I 've been even a confidante while his marriage has been breaking up . ’ |
| 11 | It appears he and his boss have been having a relationship for two years . |
| 12 | An eighty five year old man who was beaten up and robbed at knifepoint at his home has been talking about his ordeal . |
| 13 | His body had been expecting her . |
| 14 | Beeson , the England captain , scored his first victory over the world No. 9 , Zarak Jahan Khan , with one of the finest performances of his career , and then complained about the remarks he claimed his opponent had been making during the rallies . |
| 15 | His opponent has been doing it since age 14 . ’ |
| 16 | Meanwhile , biophysicist Professor H. Ti Trien and his team have been trying to mimic photosynthesis , in particular the charge separation step . |
| 17 | In mitigation Duncan Smith said Stevenson and his friend had been drinking in a pub and decided to take a car to get back home . |
| 18 | He told officers that his friend had been looking for Carol in Bristol on the Friday before she died . |
| 19 | All this time his friend has been tugging at my shoulder . |
| 20 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 21 | Her husband , who was carrying her clubs and who , in golfing terms , is very much of the conservative half of the partnership , had refrained from protesting , presumably on the grounds that his wife had been playing well and was ‘ up ’ for the shot . |
| 22 | Since his wife had been failing and the family was very poor , they decided not to bury him right away . |
| 23 | A farmer and his wife have been teaching their son at home for over two years because they do n't want him to go to a special school . |
| 24 | Chris and his wife have been collecting and breeding snakes for the past 16 years : there are 34 in the house at the moment , but during the breeding season there can be as many as 200 . |
| 25 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 26 | He and his wife have been looking after Mother and daughter while she was treated at the John Radcliffe Hospital in Oxford . |
| 27 | His wife has been suffering from severe depression , serious enough for her to be treated as an outpatient at the local hospital , for some 18 months . |
| 28 | He had declined an invitation to dinner , as the stabbing pains in his head had been getting steadily worse throughout the day . |
| 29 | He knew , too , that his head had been aching and that his mind was capable of playing tricks upon him . |
| 30 | His bait had been lying in three inches of water ! |