Example sentences of "[conj] he have be [v-ing] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 2 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 3 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 4 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 5 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 6 | Once he had told her , in a mood of taunting cruelty that sometimes overtook him , that he had been saving up quietly all these years , enough money " to be rid of you for ever " . |
| 7 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 8 | At the next meeting , Mr E almost casually mentioned that he had been trying out one or two of last week 's ideas and that Dave seemed quite responsive to him this week . |
| 9 | Terry had written out a very detailed plan for a farm-school project for juvenile offenders that he had been working on for almost two years . |
| 10 | But it was more than a shock when Julian admitted to Peter that he had been running up huge debts with their bank . |
| 11 | As for Dieter Sims , I do n't know much about him except that he 's been building up the East German unit under Husband 's wing . |
| 12 | ‘ Rumours that he 's been fooling around behind my back ? ’ |
| 13 | Right , I just thought the Chair would like to thank Councillor for the immense amount of work I know that he 's been putting in over certain things that have been going on lately and I now take councillors ' questions if any of you got any for me . |
| 14 | BRISTOL CITY striker Andy Cole yesterday denied that he has been holding back since the club rejected a £600,000 offer from Nottingham Forest . |
| 15 | There had been too much ‘ talk and show ’ early on and he had been wriggling about , scraping his chair back and causing Mrs Singh to reprimand him constantly . |
| 16 | And he 's been hanging around there ever since . |
| 17 | The minute she set eyes on him , she seemed to take leave of her senses — and he 's been playing up to her the whole time . |
| 18 | Women like the fact that he looks like he 's been rolling around in hay . |
| 19 | Rather embarrassed that he had waited … as if he had been hanging on … shy , although it could not be the surroundings , he very gratefully accepted the offer of claret , knew it to be a good one and said so … did not know quite what to say … he had found a peculiar empathy grow between himself and this handsome , strong , elegant , privileged man of the world when they had been in the little hill church of St Kentigern 's . |
| 20 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 21 | I could not have cared if he had been lying out on those wild moors bleeding to death . |
| 22 | If he had been walking out with any other girl in service in the town they could have stayed in on a wet night and talked by the kitchen range , but with the Hogans hovering around he had to bring Patsy out into the rain . |
| 23 | Although , she reasoned realistically , if he had been fooling around behind her back it indicated that what he felt for her fell very far short of love , in which case he would probably have cancelled the wedding if she had n't . |
| 24 | If he had been working out of the Embassy in Washington , if he was being shunted round the F.B.I . |
| 25 | The youth was certainly one of the vagabond gipsies , and it looked as if he had been spying out Farmer Yatton 's land , for the very next morning Angela 's daddy came into the farmhouse with the news that several sacks of potatoes and a quantity of oats had been stolen from one of the storehouses during the night . |
| 26 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 27 | But he 's been saving up . |
| 28 | ‘ I would if I could — but he 's been flying back and forth to Australia like a damned Yo-Yo ! |
| 29 | But I do n't know that actually killing a man because he 's been touching up the boys would altogether hang together as a motive . ’ |
| 30 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |