Example sentences of "he [verb] 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | He has been undergoing expensive treatment and is trying to raise cash for the Ray Kennedy Trust Fund to help sufferers of the disease . |
| 7 | He has been studying German football , and Cologne in particular on satellite TV for the past few weeks . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | How long he 'd been sleeping rough no one could tell . |
| 12 | Tonight , only a few minutes earlier , he 'd been following handwritten signs down a service passageway to the toilets when , for one brief half-second , he 'd seen a local councillor emerging through the doorway with the head of a pig on his shoulders . |
| 13 | And suddenly he remembered standing here , it was dark-green all around him , but the sky above was blue , the sun must 've been setting , it was quiet , just the creak of a tree , the whir of an insect 's wing , he 'd been standing motionless , as if in a trance , and then he heard a voice , his mother 's voice . |
| 14 | He said he 'd been feeling depressed . |
| 15 | He 'd been feeling good that day : finding the sweet-spot time after time , the ball coming off the racquet head with no sense of effort . |
| 16 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 17 | He had been writing short stories and inventing film scripts since his childhood but it was not until 1940 that one was accepted for publication by Cyril Connolly [ q.v. ] in Horizon . |
| 18 | He had been doodling obsessive box-like designs , a nest of interlocking right-angled lines locking out all possibility of error or surprise . |
| 19 | On closer questioning it was found that he had been harbouring strong transsexual feelings for some while and that the injury resulted from an urge to initiate a sex change . |
| 20 | He had been watching young chicks , he said , and noted how they explored their environment by pecking at crumbs or other small objects , including their own droppings , but quickly learned to distinguish edible from inedible items . |
| 21 | ‘ It came out in the court that he had been robbing old ladies … confidence trickster was the word . |
| 22 | Apparently he had been devising procedural systems for years , but nobody used them and everybody laughed at him . |
| 23 | His beard was grey-white , but discoloured yellow around his mouth as if he had been drooling thin custard . |
| 24 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 25 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 26 | She was going on to recall how yesterday she had thought of Vendelin Gajdusek 's being in Prague , when in actual fact , had she known it , he had been sitting right there beside her driving her back to Mariánské Láznë , when he suddenly gave her near heart failure by challenging , out of the blue ‘ I thought you said your name was Fabia ? ’ |
| 27 | He had been doing Limited Edition Club books from the beginning . |
| 28 | He had been doing voluntary work for young people , and they used to enjoy going dancing and out to a club for a drink on Saturday nights . |
| 29 | He had been doing excellent business from the Lionisers , so good that he was beneficent enough to feel sorry for poor old Cedric . |
| 30 | A minute earlier he had been feeling sorry for the men who were still out on house-to-house questioning . |