Example sentences of "man have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Man has been training birds of prey since ancient times and I am in no doubt that success has always been based on patience , mutual trust and observation . |
| 2 | The young man has been living in the USA . |
| 3 | Another man has been existing in a tiny cell in Georgia for 20 years — waiting to die . |
| 4 | A man has been telling a court how he tried to save the life of his brother . |
| 5 | An old man has been playing the guitar , but he has left off playing to listen to a young shepherd piping . |
| 6 | The game the young man has been playing , however , is not baseball but exorcism . |
| 7 | What 's for sure is it will be a Mega Drama , the day I discover my man has been playing around , because I believe in fidelity and learned its importance the hard way . |
| 8 | Recently the 35-year old Belfast man has been playing the ‘ Irish sweeper ’ role , in front of the back four . |
| 9 | Especially when , whatever other circumstances may hold good , the man has been exerting himself to make an impression on the lady in question . |
| 10 | Apparently the old man has been hammering this into them for weeks . ’ |
| 11 | Club secretary John Ritchie , who is also the Northern League 's registration secretary said : ‘ We 're sorry to be losing Vic , but the man has been doing the job since December and not received a penny . |
| 12 | It is set in Peru where the stunt man has been making a movie . |
| 13 | From the iron age till now , man has been making increasingly complex artefacts . |
| 14 | Among the former are many participles , both present and past : ( 26 ) the watching crowd started to laugh he was greeted by smiling well-wishers the injured man had been feeding the orang-utan but participles do not exhaust the possibilities : ( 27 ) the angry bartender slammed the drink down five empty tumblers were standing by his elbow Notice , too , the clear ambiguity of : ( 28 ) a flashing light as meaning either a light which is flashing on some particular occasion , or one which normally has this characteristic . |
| 15 | A later post mortem showed the man had been drinking and died of hypothermia during the night when temperatures dropped to — 2 . |
| 16 | The tall man had been leaning against the stable 's open gates , but straightened up as Lucille appeared from the house . |
| 17 | The dead man had been renting the house on the quiet estate for 18 months . |
| 18 | The man had been writing in a book , he 'd taken the number of the car with an official air and Cormack had wondered why for a moment , then forgotten . |
| 19 | The anger was there , the bitterness of betrayal , the sickness that came with the understanding that another man had been caressing his wife 's nakedness . |
| 20 | The merchant 's long face was even more mournful and the friar was sure the man had been crying . |
| 21 | Earlier he had heard that a young clerk from the Post Office had shot himself while lying in bed … he had left a young widow , to whom he had been married in Calcutta during the previous cold season ; this act of despair had moved him more than any other of the many deaths he had witnessed since the beginning of the siege ; it was perhaps the fact that the young man had been lying in bed when he had shot himself that the Collector found so sad . |
| 22 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 23 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 24 | Erm and we 're talking about half a thousandth of an inch , and for that you know , the man , but when I investigated the case , the man had been working on these things for about three or four weeks . |
| 25 | I told him that your man had been annoyin' me with his ‘ is-that-a-he-or-a-she ? ’ questions so I threatened to take my prick out and show it to him . |
| 26 | For the past half-hour the little man had been giggling to himself as he stropped a Buck knife razor-sharp on the inside of his belt . |
| 27 | A spokeswoman said the man had been making door to door calls , asking for donations . |
| 28 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 29 | Dr Bob Cooper gave medical evidence and , according to my shaky shorthand outline , the dead man had been suffering from sexual depression . |
| 30 | The young man had been standing on the platform at Portslade station in East Sussex yesterday shortly before the London to Brighton train passed . |