Example sentences of "been [v-ing] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As well as fine-tuning his own stamina and fitness by clocking up to 70 miles in training each week , Paul has been helping his 12-year-old daughter Sacha in her bid to compete her first four-mile London mini-marathon . |
| 2 | Valerie Eliot was also his protector — as a secretary she had for a long time been organizing his daily life and guarding him from the world , and it was probably the calm assurance of her presence which first drew him towards her . |
| 3 | Police believe Mr McEvoy had been using his blue Ford Sierra car , registered D234 HAJ , on Saturday evening . |
| 4 | A judge at the Old Bailey has been explaining his full reasons for stopping the trial of the three retired detectives who were accused of tampering with evidence in the case of the Birmingham Six . |
| 5 | Erm when they tested it they said that one was near to failure anyway and that was what was , been causing his bad heads and it was just by pure coincidence that bloke hitting him , that brought it to light . |
| 6 | A lifelong railway enthusiast has been celebrating his perfect birthday . |
| 7 | In the intervening years , Doctor Ross has been perfecting his left-handed guitar technique , and writing his own songs , the best known being ‘ Cat Squirrel ’ , recorded by Cream on their first album . |
| 8 | He had been wearing his turned-down wellington boots and long rubber apron , and the gold in his teeth had flashed with reflected sunlight . |
| 9 | Mr Wolfe had just been doing his customary job of explaining to the passengers why we were late : ‘ We have an emergency situation which is not a real alarm situation . ’ |
| 10 | Her partner 's passionate hobby was shooting , and she knew from their telephone calls that he had been spending his spare time at a sports club which had a range . |
| 11 | if he had been chasing his flying tent up from the machair on the west of the island , he might have got up as far as the bogland near the lochan , but surely the light from my cottage would not be visible until he had followed the road downhill past the curve and almost into Otters ' Bay . |
| 12 | Just like Walter Trout , 42 year-old Dave has been making his European debut courtesy of Dutch record label Provogue , and the album ‘ Short Fuse Blues ’ is receiving very favourable recognition with blues fans everywhere . |
| 13 | In the hall , he has been making his accustomed mark from the chair . |
| 14 | ONE OF BRITAIN 'S most successful sculptors , Barry Flanagan , has been putting his steroid-injected bronze hares through all sorts of paces since 1979 — they leap , dance , box , bat , bowl , pose , cavort . |
| 15 | The entertainer Frankie Vaughan has been fulfilling his new role as a Queen 's representative for his county . |
| 16 | He had been telling his senior officers the story only that afternoon — the tale of T'sao and the Tanguts . |
| 17 | He 's been watching his old man . |
| 18 | Andy Mutch has been trying his new kit on for the first time today . |
| 19 | Charles has been polishing his flying skills at Enstone aerodrome in Oxfordshire . |
| 20 | Charles has been polishing his flying skills at Enstone aerodrome in Oxfordshire . |
| 21 | But he 'd been practising his backhand all year , mentally preparing himself for the North Shore . |