Example sentences of "he have be [verb] for [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 2 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 3 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 4 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 5 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 6 | Thus , a Keeper of Italian Painting would have responsibility for the Italian drawings , thereby not only linking their administration and scholarly maintenance but also bringing drawing into the direct relationship with painting which Clifford says he has been advocating for many years . |
| 7 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 8 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 9 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 10 | He has been banned for six months after being sent off in the Royal Liver League final replay against Donegal . |
| 11 | No individual can sell or receive commission on investment business , unless he has been working for that same Company for at least five continuous years . |
| 12 | Unfortunately John Scott Morgan had to postpone his planned October talk ( but he has been booked for next May , see below ) . |
| 13 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 14 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 15 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 16 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 17 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 18 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 19 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 20 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 21 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 22 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 23 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 24 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
| 25 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 26 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 27 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 28 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 29 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 30 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |