Example sentences of "as he have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Words just ca n't express how I feel about the man who did this — especially as he had been drinking . |
| 2 | To his horror Henry saw that as he had been brushing her teeth he had started to grip her neck , hard . |
| 3 | A police statement on Nov. 14 , however , claimed that the shots had gone astray ( one into the air , the other into the ground ) only because a policeman had pounced on the gunman , Aleksandr Shmonov , as he had been taking aim at the leadership 's reviewing stand atop the Lenin Mausoleum , only 46 metres away . |
| 4 | Arthur Hutton , it was reported , was ‘ highly delighted ’ , as he had been planting the hedge as agent for his cousin George , Allison Hutton 's son . |
| 5 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 6 | After eight weeks and a few x-rays , for which he staggered across his box ( we had borrowed an extension lead by this time ) , I was finally able to get the farrier to take Copper 's shoes off , as he had been wearing them for ten weeks . |
| 7 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 8 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 9 | On their wedding night he was drunk , and she was affectionate and clinging , and it was as hopeless as he had been predicting to himself . |
| 10 | They were of special interest to Mr Dalyell as he had been attempting to get more information from ministers about the sinking of the General Belgrano . |
| 11 | He wrote to his sister , who he had n't seen for a year , as he had been travelling round Europe before joining the Legion . |
| 12 | FitzAlan would only snap at her anyway , as he had been doing from the minute they had risen in the half-light of a chilly grey dawn . |
| 13 | As they passed the alimentari ( shut , as it might be forever ) and then plunged off the road into the shadows of the bramble-lined single track , Haverford quoted , as he had been waiting to do ever since they left Heathrow : ‘ ‘ In the middle of the journey of our life , I found myself lost in a dark wood , ’ ’ he began to translate for the benefit of the children , but they were all , including the baby , asleep now and Molly thought that for her father to pretend to be in the middle of his life was a bit of a cheek anyway . |
| 14 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 15 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |
| 16 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 17 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 18 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 19 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 20 | As he has been discovering , the issues which excite New Yorkers are not rising levels of crime , poverty and the deteriorating quality of life . |
| 21 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 22 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 23 | In a conventional world , the Chancellor would simply roll his forecasts forward as he has been doing for the past two years now . |
| 24 | Mr Jones is well known in many parishes of the diocese , as he has been visiting them in helping to organise their planned giving schemes . |