Example sentences of "he [verb] been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To see what he has been up to lately visit Curt Marcus before the 31st of the month . |
| 2 | To see what he has been up to lately , visit Nancy Hoffman before 2 December . |
| 3 | The inclusion of the word " reasonably " gives the court a discretion which will be exercised in the tenant 's favour where for example he has made one or two late payments of rent , but not where he has been persistently in arrear throughout the term ( Bassett v Whiteley ( 1982 ) 54 P & CR 87 ) . |
| 4 | Since 1990 he has been either under house arrest or in jail . |
| 5 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 6 | Ever since then he has been solidly in the ranks of the anti-Establishment , commenting in his work on the political evils of the day particularly the arms buildup of recent years . |
| 7 | Carl LLewellyn , who rode Party Politics to glory last year , is back in the saddle on Saturday even though he has been out with an injury . |
| 8 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 9 | Mr Badillo is a lawyer with a full-time private practice , not a local political activist ; and he has been out of office since 1978 . |
| 10 | He has been out of work for years . |
| 11 | To tell him that he has been always in my thoughts . |
| 12 | Iain saying he has been back to the body , and looked into Christopher 's eyes . |
| 13 | He has been back to Wirral once since then , in 1988 . |
| 14 | The £700,000 striker missed the last two games with a badly bruised shoulder , but he has been back in training for the last couple of days and will have a late fitness check tonight . |
| 15 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 16 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 17 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 18 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 19 | And he spent a lot of evenings with Thacker , drinking and — well , they found out later what else he 'd been up to . |
| 20 | ‘ She 'd have been more than concerned if she 'd known what he 'd been up to over the previous few weeks ! ’ said Harris drily . |
| 21 | So that was what he 'd been up to in Berlin , Loretta thought . |
| 22 | Although I did n't , he he , I did n't have time to ask him what the hell he 'd been up to . |
| 23 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 24 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 25 | He 'd been right about Bryce . |
| 26 | He 'd been right about the shelter of the hedge . |
| 27 | He 'd been right about Mrs Aitken having gone to some trouble . |
| 28 | He 'd been right about the entire day : the fountains in Rome , the quiet beauty of the little villages they passed and the gentle sweep of the campagna . |
| 29 | He 'd been away at the time of the murder but if , as seemed likely , he 'd been having an affair with Angy … suppose he was married and his wife had found out , and taken the opportunity while her husband was absent to do away with her rival ? |
| 30 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |