Example sentences of "he has be [v-ing] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet , as he has been living out of a suitcase now for 20 years , he can be forgiven for feeling battle weary . |
| 2 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 3 | Apparently not , for he has been thinking hard for months and his decision is now solid . |
| 4 | He has been traipsing about , explaining to staff the joys of privatisation which await them . |
| 5 | BRISTOL CITY striker Andy Cole yesterday denied that he has been holding back since the club rejected a £600,000 offer from Nottingham Forest . |
| 6 | During that time he has been pushing hard to make up any lost ground . |
| 7 | His chief backer is Roy Hattersley , whom he has been seeing quite a bit lately . |
| 8 | Throughout the whole sequence , from the first musings to the final decision , he has been reacting spontaneously to what step by step he has been learning . |
| 9 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 10 | At length , the passage he has been stooping along opens out somewhat into a low chamber : he has come to the shrine of a goddess . |
| 11 | ‘ He has been jumping around with all the other children in the ward . ’ |
| 12 | How is he to measure it against ‘ Look before you leap ’ , ‘ Care for your parents ’ , and such other imperatives as he has been picking up on the way ? |
| 13 | The Dark Ones are demanding , but he has been bearing up remarkably . |
| 14 | Perhaps it is an honour he has found hard to bear , for he has been acting very strangely even by his own standards . |
| 15 | I WOULD like to say how much I have enjoyed listening to former Labour leader Neil Kinnock , right , while he has been standing in for Jimmy Young on Radio 2 . |
| 16 | The normal expectation in the construction and interpretation of discourse is , as Grice suggests , that relevance holds , that the speaker is still speaking of the same place and time , participants and topic , unless he marks a change and shows explicitly whether the changed context is , or is not , relevant to what he has been saying previously . |
| 17 | Now at 16 Steven has a steady girlfriend of 15 , who he has been going out with for several months . |
| 18 | Penang 's chief minister , Koh Tsu Koon , is so intent on his high-tech strategy that he says he has been turning away unsuitable investors . |
| 19 | So now he is my enemy , I have touched his pride , and he has been waiting only the moment to humiliate me … ’ |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | He has been working well recently and looks sure to take all the beating in an uncompetitive contest . |
| 22 | He looks wonderful ; prison has fattened him and his cheeks are pink and shiny , as though he has been working out of doors . |
| 23 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 24 | All season he has been playing well , putting poorly . |
| 25 | He has been playing well and we might well need him again . |
| 26 | He has only been a reserve for Wales all season , although I believe he has been playing very well for his club . |
| 27 | " He has been behaving differently today . " |
| 28 | But lately he has been losing rather too many important matches . |
| 29 | ‘ He has been crying out for support for ages , and I am sure that this new opportunity is just what he is looking for . ’ |
| 30 | He was not right after the race and did not appear again all season but I like the way he has been stretching out and he could win here before making his mark in middle distance Group company . |