Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 32 | He had been dreading this . |
| 33 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 34 | For some days he had been mulling this over , trying to come up with something more interesting than Wyvis Hall . |
| 35 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 36 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
| 37 | However , it got so bad one day — I think he had been discussing this with his father because he used to go home sometimes at the weekends and come back to the flat on Monday — and he came in one day and said , ‘ OK , it 's going to be cabaret ’ . |
| 38 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 39 | And at last Sergeant heard the voice he had been waiting all day to hear : |
| 40 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 41 | I was aware that he had been focusing all his will on this resolve and that to let go now would be an appalling submission . |
| 42 | He had been sitting all evening in exactly the spot from which the gun had been fired . |
| 43 | He had been paying more attention than she thought . |
| 44 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 45 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 46 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 47 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 48 | He had been performing that little number when these kids were wetting their diapers . |
| 49 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years . |
| 50 | ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years . |
| 51 | Yuan looked down , then broached the subject he had been avoiding all evening . |
| 52 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 53 | He looked as if he had been conserving all his energy since then for the moment when he took advantage of an error by Butcher to shoot strongly past Woods . |
| 54 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 55 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |
| 56 | He 's been sporting those flares of his for quite some time and now everyone is into them . |
| 57 | hello , hi Matt , alright I did an absolute steamer , excellent , did it really well , it only took me an hour and ten minutes it took me an hour and ten minutes I have n't no I knew , I knew vaguely , knew vaguely enough I mean I have , perfect question came up just describe er the youths portrayed in the er book and there was only two , there was the main character who I got most of the stuff from , from what Katie told me and the rest was the other bloke was called Carston Corsalius and basically all we knew about him was he fancied this other one , the main character , and erm was a journalist , that was it ah put it in nine times , no , I , I do n't know what it means eh , er Matt did n't come in , er a bit of a shame could n't no yeah , what did you really want ? or was that it ? yeah yeah , fixed , flexible and managed yes fixed , flex , fixed , flexible and managed oh right yeah , yeah , yeah , yeah , do n't they and er advantages and disadvantages of indirect tax was , untax and direct was the other one , you know it indirect taxes yes yeah I ca n't remember , I really ca n't remember , like a colour yeah , you wan na know both of those , I 'd , I , I could n't remember all of demand pull , I put down the wage , price , wage spiral or the waged price spiral , that 's a stinker that is , that 's a beauty , I put that down , its ' a beaut , that 's my best diagram and I did three diagram' in four essays I hate doing diagram' yeah he 's here now , we 're about to go for a quick drink like , he says he 's been revising all day so erm , and I shall , I shall brief him , just as you would expect , I shall tell him all he needs I do n't , I do n't want to leave him in the lurch okay see you in French yeah , bye , bye , bye |
| 58 | I 'd lastly like to say a thank you to Kevin , because I think , as a man , it is obviously more difficult for him to broach this subject , and he 's been pursuing this through APEX through for a very long time , and has worked extremely hard , so I 'd like to say thank you to him , and thank you to you now for taking the message back home . |
| 59 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
| 60 | Oh he 's pleased what he 's been doing that |