Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 2 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 3 | 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 ? |
| 4 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 5 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 6 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 7 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 8 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Bill in question goes a good deal wider than just the matters that he has been addressing . |
| 9 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 10 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 11 | Ali had been arrested in April 1990 amidst allegations that he had been plotting to overthrow the government , but was acquitted of terrorism charges in December . |
| 12 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 13 | Well , to be honest , it seems to , I Peter 's got the details cos he 's been talking to er , the public health clerk . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |
| 16 | It seemed incredible to Tug that only five minutes before he had been calling her Ma and they had been grinning at each other . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 19 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 20 | A branch of the great plane tree had come down in the wind and as he ran back towards the Cages he saw that it had fallen right across the path where moments before he had been standing . |
| 21 | ‘ Rumours that he 's been fooling around behind my back ? ’ |
| 22 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |
| 23 | ‘ Wheeler certainly knew or suspected something about candles since he 's been questioning Williams about them , ’ said Ian , recalling his unsatisfactory conversation with the Verger . |