Example sentences of "he [vb -s] be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ 'E 's been lookin' in Sergeant Joe 's private bag . ’ |
| 2 | so that 's done some work on that , and there 's now four models for training , one is the , you know , on the job , evenings , training , there 's the weekend model of getting people together for the weekend , there 's the sort of summer school idea and the other one 's the one that Doug keeps reminding me about , which I keep forgetting about which is the distance learning one , er we , I think this is the one he thinks is running in Dundee , that maybe help with because the idea of developing a pack which is kind of trainer proof |
| 3 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 6 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 7 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 8 | He has been living in Thailand , has a Thai wife and speaks Thai . |
| 9 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 10 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 11 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 12 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 13 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 14 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 15 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 16 | He has been plotting since his arrival in Scotland . |
| 17 | He has been wandering about Wales , giving a spending pledge here and a spending pledge there . |
| 18 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 19 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 20 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |
| 21 | He has been toying with various possibilities ( we suggested he could come to us & repeat the year at Oban High — a somewhat unlikely proposition , I admit ) but seems likely to plump for a 4-year course at Birmingham , leading to a BSc in Computer Engineering . |
| 22 | The news comes the day before Johan Egelstedt , 19 , leaves the family he has been staying with in Leicester to return to Sweden and resume his education . |
| 23 | Adopted just five weeks ago ‘ I 'd tried for other seats but had n't got anywhere ’ he has been staying in Northallerton with Jim Stafford , the cheery and down to earth constituency agent . |
| 24 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 25 | Looking at the sorts of things that Paul writes about as well , you 'll see that there is a change in material ; up to now , he has been writing about Christian doctrine . |
| 26 | ‘ Well , he has been caddying for Harley in Europe , and he did win one tournament and finished equal second in the other . |
| 27 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 28 | His latest play , David Henry Hwang 's M. Butterfly , which began its national tour in Bath this week , attracted him because it deals with the questions of sexual roles and masculine/feminine identity which he has been exploring through his men 's group for the past 18 months . |
| 29 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 30 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |