Example sentences of "[noun sg] he have be [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 9 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
| 10 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 11 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |
| 12 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
| 13 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
| 14 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
| 15 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
| 16 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 17 | Also , the mic was n't giving off the warm , mucky sound he 'd been going for . |
| 18 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 19 | But Jones told the court he had been looking after the alcohol at the party and collecting money from people who wanted to take some of the drink . |
| 20 | He also told the court he had been acting in accordance with an order from Allied Forces Headquarters on 14 May 1945 . |
| 21 | He was wearing the crumpled suit he had been wearing on the day Robert first saw him in the pub . |
| 22 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 23 | Al-Kadir , the timid and vacillating ruler of Valencia , capitulated without delay , restoring the tribute he had been paying to El Cid before his second banishment . |
| 24 | Now was obviously not the time to confront Feargal and ask what the devil he 'd been talking about . |
| 25 | The officer 's life was ‘ almost certainly ’ saved by the fact that one bullet became embedded in a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 26 | His life had almost certainly been saved by the fact that one bullet had hit a radio handset he had been holding to his ear . |
| 27 | One Saturday night he 'd been drinking in front of the telly when he decided to phone Sheila 's place . |
| 28 | Last night he had been suffering from jet lag ; now he seemed to be fully recovered , and power flowed from him in waves . |
| 29 | night he 's been going to bed at ten , eleven o see that was quarter past ten last night before you went |
| 30 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |