Example sentences of "the [noun pl] he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 It is one of the reasons he has been delaying us these three days , I think , ’ Guillamon put in .
2 He opted for the latter and at the end of 1989 he launched his debut album ‘ Brand New Star ’ which sold very well , got a lot of radio play , and , most important of all , it introduced the songs he had been composing and singing at concerts to a wider public .
3 He 'd never seen anyone in Jubilee Wood in all the months he 'd been coming up here .
4 They were the words he had been wanting to hear and with an exultant roar , and with both arms at once around her , he pulled her close up to him .
5 Now , from what I know of him he can get a good sound out of anything , but the amps he 's been using recently ( until he had them nicked from his car ) were Marshall Valvestate 80s .
6 Given some of the feats he has been demonstrating , it is hardly surprising .
7 Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer .
8 Then she remembered that it was only a selection of the poems he had been reading and she did not need to speculate further , for — much to her surprise — he began to read
9 Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark .
10 Besides , it will be an opportunity to expound the ideas he has been developing .
11 Philip Baker prosecuting said : ‘ Dennett told the officers he had been drinking and his wife had called the police . ’
12 How long he lay against Mick he did n't know ; he only knew that between the sounds he had been emitting and the wash of tears that seemed to have drained him dry , a voice within him had kept repeating : ‘ She killed your father , Mick ; she killed your father .
13 There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art .
14 Evidence of a psychologist was heard on the voir dire , the essence of whose testimony was that when B had made the admissions he had been suffering from a relatively mild form of paranoid psychosis , the effect of which was that , under the stress of questioning , he would have felt very threatened , been likely to tell lies , and to make untrue admissions .
15 Years of being dismissed by Gould while Lear was lonely and homesick in Rome eventually took their toll , and finally he turned against one of the friends he had been trying most persuasively to woo .
16 After all the incivilities he 'd been hurling at her , he deserved to be put in his place a little !
17 He was surprised , since for all Boy 's nights out , during which , as the man correctly assumed , Boy had sex with many different men , he never received visits , calls or letters from the men he had been sleeping with .
18 Tim Roberts , prosecuting , said Floyd had been arrested at the Darlington bus station ten minutes after the attempted robbery and it was obvious to the police he had been drinking .
19 The trousers he was holding were the ones he 'd been wearing at Streatley the previous weekend .
20 Bissell 's own molecular composition , including the clothes he had been wearing , had proved just as chaotic as expected .
21 Early on Monday evening Wickham tossed the papers he had been scanning on to the desk and stood up .
22 It was gone in an instant as at last he looked up at her and pushed aside the papers he 'd been leafing through .
23 He looked up from the papers he 'd been working on and said blandly , ‘ Ah , Luce …
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