Example sentences of "he have [been] [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been telling golfing cronies in Ireland that the Beeb are reduced to such drastic economies because they are coughing up £10 million a year on Eldorado . |
| 2 | ( If her son enters when he is a few years older , he will surely be unique in being able to say he has been taking part since before he was born . ) |
| 3 | He has been taking medication and it is believed he may have been able to hide some of the drug . |
| 4 | His new Food and Beverage Manager appears to accept the idea as theoretically desirable , but gives it a low priority in practice : privately , he has been urging Winter to ‘ crack the whip a bit ’ , arguing that the whole establishment needs ‘ a good shake up ’ before reforms can be introduced effectively . |
| 5 | Maurice Adams , General Manager of ACET , has recently returned form Uganda where he has been discussing planning for future projects with ACET 's African Director , Anthony Kasozi . |
| 6 | For the last two months he has been attending Queen 's Park with his wife Christine and three children . ) |
| 7 | This will equally enable the Policyholder to replace the engine with one of similar type , capacity , age and size to the one lost — and therefore we will have provided him with indemnity under the Policy notwithstanding the fact that he has been paying premium on the value insured . |
| 8 | Coach Intikhab Alam said : ‘ He has been having rest and regular medication and he is most likely to play . ’ |
| 9 | He has been having rehabilitation sessions at Lilleshall , attempting to strengthen the joint , and says : ‘ The whole thing is very frustrating but I have to be philosophical about it . |
| 10 | With his new mechanic , Stuart Hare , he has been working day and night for the last three weeks to get three bikes in tip-top condition . |
| 11 | An Irish internationalist at boys and youths level , he has been playing golf for five years . |
| 12 | He has been injecting heroin since he was 16 years old . |
| 13 | He has been doing weight work at home . |
| 14 | ‘ I had to warn Monty about his drinking because he 'd been causing trouble , ’ MGM 's then chief of production , Dore Schary said to me . |
| 15 | At the Court of Appeal today , Rachael 's solicitor explained that he 'd been frightened of losing the children , and that for several weeks before the killing he 'd been taking medication for depression . |
| 16 | He 'd been receiving treatment for depression and friends believe he committed suicide . |
| 17 | He 'd been slashing car tyres when approached him with a hammer . |
| 18 | Edward was pale and she wondered if he 'd been eating pork crackling again which did n't agree with him , but he did n't seem sick . |
| 19 | He 'd been talking shit . |
| 20 | He 'd been doing solo club pa 's as Zura C before the pair met . |
| 21 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 22 | He 'd been directing traffic at a census point in Weedon , Northamptonshire . |
| 23 | He let the foot he 'd been massaging fall to the floor with a thud , and she winced . |
| 24 | His appointment as curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum at a salary of £300 p.a. was announced on 16 July 1904 ; he had been acting curator while his predecessor George H. Birch [ q.v. ] had been on sick leave . |
| 25 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 26 | Mr Bates , of Brackley , Northants , hit and killed a scientist on a bicycle on his way back from a business meeting in London where he had been drinking wine and sherry , the Court heard . |
| 27 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 28 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 29 | It can be contained by medication and he had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Salford as a voluntary patient just prior to his trip . |
| 30 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |