Example sentences of "have be [v-ing] [prep] he [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the past year Maureen Timmins has been corresponding with him in San Quentin jail where he 's waiting execution for the murder of his pregnant wife . |
| 2 | It started to get out of proportion in that he , Ray has been talking to him about the impact of the summer season in Scarborough in terms of how long it takes his staff to get from A to B. |
| 3 | Ven queried , as well he might , she realised , for she 'd been chatting to him like a veritable magpie all evening with not so much as a hint of shyness . |
| 4 | She 'd been listening to him with dawning realisation , an icy sensation freezing her body inch by inch . |
| 5 | ‘ And do you deny that for the two years prior to his death you 'd been living with him in his flat in London ? ’ |
| 6 | She 'd been living with him in Bristol and they planned to marry . |
| 7 | After I 'd been talking to him about leaving . |
| 8 | I mean , if you 'd been talking to him during the lesson he 'd say , well , if you want to talk about it , leave it till after the lesson . |
| 9 | And she 'd been talking to him for about half an hour and well er her son had come up |
| 10 | ‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think . |
| 11 | After a while she realised she 'd been beating at him with her fists hard enough to hurt and yet he had n't lifted a finger to stop her . |
| 12 | I must have been chatting to him for about 20 minutes and he told me he 'd needed an urgent lift . |
| 13 | Gerrard had been looking at him with a gradually spreading grin on his face , and now he thumped George on the back with great bonhomie and beamed with immense satisfaction . |
| 14 | She had not seen her nearest ‘ big house ’ neighbour , though she had been hearing about him for some time . |
| 15 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 16 | In October , Hopper married Michelle Phillips who had been living with him for some months . |
| 17 | Then Waddell 's alibi , Donald Carmichael , who had said at Meehan 's trial that Waddell had been staying with him on the night of the murder , now admitted this was a lie . |
| 18 | Then Riven asked the question that had been gnawing at him for the last day : ‘ What about Murtach ? ’ |
| 19 | It was as if she had been waiting for him for all these years . |
| 20 | Gravier 's wife and child and parents had been waiting for him at Acapulco . |
| 21 | Although the citadel had been rebuilt by the Emperor Gia Long in 1802 , its palaces and temples had been designed and constructed faithfully in the style favoured by China 's Ming emperors and at the entrance to the Dai Noi , the Imperial City itself , Tran Van Hieu had been waiting for him in the shadow of the Ngo Mon , the " Bull Gate " roofed in gold tiles like the Gate of Heavenly Peace in Peking . |
| 22 | With an effort , Miles shook off the lethargy that had been creeping over him since Paula 's death , blinding him to his duties and responsibilities . |
| 23 | Mr Davidson 's father , Robert Snr , said Mrs Holmes had been working for him for the last eight years . |
| 24 | And we and then we had been working for him for about ten or eleven years on this contract that he had for us . |
| 25 | Roy had been working for him since three weeks after his wedding , and he hated it . |
| 26 | Aware that she had been staring at him for rather a long time , she blinked and asked hastily , ‘ Did you sort out your business ? ’ |
| 27 | He was across the road and halfway back down Fleet Street before it occurred to him that they had been staring at him like that because they thought he was trying to push in at the head of the queue . |
| 28 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 29 | The rain had been beating on him for hours , on him and his comrades , not only here but wherever they had been when they met their deaths ; their clothes , their very hair , had a flattened , dead look . |
| 30 | He had then been dragged behind the vehicle and held down while the man who had been sitting beside him during the journey drove the car over his legs . |