Example sentences of "he have been sitting [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Isabel wondered how long he 'd been sitting there — intent , watchful , waiting . |
| 2 | Here she was , imagining that the last half-hour had been a sort of truce — telling Marc all those things about her life on the stage , all those silly , funny , self-mocking stories of disaster and mayhem that were part of the business , and he 'd been sitting there in judgement all that time , working out how much Peter might or might not have paid her for playing the part of his fiancée … |
| 3 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 4 | He 'd been sitting apparently fascinated by my World Religions class , and when he came up at the end I was sure he wanted to ask a question about Zoroastrianism or Thuggee , or whatever damned thing I 'd been going on about . |
| 5 | His father brushed the chair he had been sitting on and , with a flourish , invited Madeleine to sit down . |
| 6 | Then a grinding and then all of a sudden Captain Pugwash fell flat on his face as the stone he had been sitting on swung upwards , revealing a dark space below . |
| 7 | The young man pulled forward the chair he had been sitting on and lifted one leg up on it . |
| 8 | " Quiss she began quietly , He shook his head , kicked the small chair he had been sitting on , and marched off across the squeaking , grating glass floor , heading for his own apartments , Before he left the games room for the short corridor which led to his rooms , he stopped by the side wall of the room , where more conventional paper and cardboard books lined the slate fabric of the castle — the masons ' lame attempt at insulation . |
| 9 | He made his way easily to the door and was about to close it when he caught sight of something tucked into the corner of the car between two wooden containers , out of sight from where he had been sitting earlier . |
| 10 | Howard leapt to his feet from the chair he had been sitting in . |
| 11 | He had been sitting quietly in his hovel of a home when stray gunfire smashed into his jaw and blew half his face away . |
| 12 | He had been sitting quietly . |
| 13 | so they both about the same thing , he 's been sitting there worried all day , he 's |
| 14 | He 's been sitting there stewing all day over that |