Example sentences of "[coord] [adv] he [vb -s] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He is wearing his traditional outfit of pinstriped suit , pinstriped shirt , spotted tie and Gucci shoes ; or perhaps he has been home and changed , and is now sporting yellow cords , a maroon V-necked jersey , and highly polished brown brogues . |
| 2 | ‘ He 's waiting to hear whether or not he 's been cast , and he 'll be feeling like a caged bear , poor darling . |
| 3 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 4 | A Ewe owned by farmer John Davies has lost a lamb during birth and so he 's been put in touch with Mrs Hunter Blair by the farmers union . |
| 5 | ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’ |
| 6 | Cowan , top scorer in his three seasons at Portadown , is out of contract in the summer — and already he has been linked with Linfield . |
| 7 | Mr Bush , a former US diplomat in Beijing , has countered by hinting that when his traducers were fully acquainted with the facts , his actions would be justified — and typically he has been angered by the ‘ personal ’ nature of the criticism . |
| 8 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ It was Guido 's arch-rival who he 's beaten into second place twice … he 's the one who took it , and now he 's been arrested . ’ |
| 10 | And now he has been put down , made to seem anti-Semitic , by a probable anti-Semite . |
| 11 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 12 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 13 | Yeah well two of mine did go in , one 's gone out into the fire service and the other one has stayed in and he 's got , he , he 's been doing very well , he 's been in a big big comprehensive school up in Runcorn , and then he 's been seconded to Cheshire County to the advisory service for a couple of years and so , hello ! |
| 14 | And indeed he has been nominated as the centrists ' candidate in the presidential election due in 1996 ( but likely to be held earlier ) . |
| 15 | Now , he finds people are beginning to be more open about their sexuality , and consequently he has been promoting the activities of the centre for sexual problems in Istanbul . |
| 16 | Augustus Aikhomu , then Chief of General Staff , the actions of Maina since his appointment in December 1989 , had not been " in consonance with the goals and objectives of this administration and accordingly he has been removed " . |
| 17 | President Bill Clinton has been in the White House just a month but already he 's been proposed for Oxford University 's highest honour . |
| 18 | But lately he 's been a real pain in the neck . |
| 19 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
| 20 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 21 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
| 22 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 23 | He 's never oversexed or silly , but then he 's been brought up not to be . |
| 24 | George Bush has too , but then he 's been a rather busy fellow of late . |
| 25 | But then he 's been burning gold every few days for ten years . |
| 26 | ‘ Yes … but recently he 's been stealing other things from the house , too … ’ |