Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He bent to pick up the card he 'd been carrying then scowled at the deserted foyer . |
| 2 | In fact , when I bring in the afternoon tea , Mr Farraday is inclined to close any book or periodical he has been reading , rise and stretch out his arms in front of the windows , as though in anticipation of conversation with me . |
| 3 | Berger stood stripped to the waist in front of the wash-basin in the small bedroom he had been allocated and examined his face in the mirror . |
| 4 | Like many other boys with India in his blood he had been forced into rootlessness by education . |
| 5 | As a soldier he had been taught to err on the side of caution . |
| 6 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 7 | The only other thing that you heard Sergeant say that some how at the briefing he 'd been given information that was likely to be in the master bedroom . |
| 8 | As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence . |
| 9 | Come and sit down , ’ he invited her , indicating the elegant stone-coloured couch he had been occupying . |
| 10 | On the nights previous to the murder he had been seen lurking outside party headquarters . |
| 11 | Very well , he reasoned , then grog jelly was not too far removed from the mandate he had been given , and no one could object to the addition of a delicious fruit sorbet . |
| 12 | He 's ma , he 's he 's er squitting It 's complete squit He 's been exposed . |
| 13 | No answer suggested itself , however , and after a minute or two he became aware that as these thoughts whirled through his mind he had been staring down at the grilles confining the Chinese coolie families . |
| 14 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 15 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 16 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 17 | Human Touch is the album he has been working on for several years and Lucky Town a set of songs he quickly wrote and recorded at home recently , and though the tone of the two records does n't differ that much , the second set of songs are far better . |
| 18 | There was a bonus for the Everton boss in that he seems to have discovered the creative midfield force he has been lacking , and it is a player he signed during his first spell at the club five-and-a-half years ago . |
| 19 | The cab stopped at the street intersection he 'd been given , his passenger paid him , took time drawing on his gloves until the cab was gone . |
| 20 | No wonder he 's been dubbed ‘ the Ben Elton of magic ’ by Radio 1 's Steve Wright while a magazine writer said he ‘ makes Paul Daniels look like Gordon the Gopher ’ . |
| 21 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 22 | During the winter he had been heartened by the success of the diminutive Peter Senior . |
| 23 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 24 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 25 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 26 | He seemed in a hurry to distance himself from the work he had been doing . |
| 27 | But if you just looked at the work he 's been churning out lately , without knowing anything about his business activities , you 'd wonder what had happened to him . |
| 28 | He does n't know how to go about the work he has been put in charge of , and yet the successful solution of this case will be a great coup for him , politically . |
| 29 | The trainer now reports : ‘ Arazi is an intelligent horse , much more mature , and in his work he has been doing just what he has to do . ’ |
| 30 | As it is , the only problems that clearly disturb him — as opposed to confuse him — are the nightmares and habitual sleepwalking he 's been tormented by since childhood , long before the recreational drug use kicked in . |