Example sentences of "[coord] he have been [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In his attempt to construct a model of the molecule , given the valencies of these two elements , there was no obvious way that the twelve atoms could be arranged into a conventional chain , and he had been wrestling with the problem for quite some time . |
| 2 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 3 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 4 | ‘ No it 's not ’ , said a Scots Nationalist friend one day — very rude to me — ‘ it 's not cosmopolitan , it 's colonial ’ , and he had been looking at me and thinking ‘ here 's one of those damned Englishmen sponging on the Scots , making a good thing out of them ’ . |
| 5 | The first thing he had thought of when he awoke that morning was that it was his mother 's birthday , 25 May , and he had been thinking about it ever since , as he always did on that day . |
| 6 | His father had been working on the farm and he had been sitting at the door of the hut . |
| 7 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 8 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 9 | The abbe liked his claret and he had been fasting during Lent . ’ |
| 10 | She had long since left the path and he had been travelling across rough land for some time — there was a high trail of dust behind the vehicle . |
| 11 | He 'd been funny , telling stories against himself of fiascos he had survived in the theatre , and he 'd been flattering in a subtle way . |
| 12 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 13 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 14 | The patient 's name was Wayne Benfield and he 'd been coming into the centre for daily dressings to an injured ankle . |
| 15 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 16 | It was , after all , a throat infection and he 's been training for the past week . ’ |
| 17 | He 's twenty-five now , Tucker told me , and he 's been living with his mother in Nassau . ’ |
| 18 | And he 's been wrestling with this alsatian |
| 19 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
| 20 | Regular access to a lab has provided Dawson with facilities to experiment , and he 's been working with solarisation , changing the colour of the base of the film . |
| 21 | And he 's been lying like hell , ’ said one source . |
| 22 | ‘ That is Sparky 's ninth goal of the season and he 's been scoring for us throughout , ’ Ferguson said . |
| 23 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 24 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 25 | But he had been working on that first novel for at least ten years , ever since I 've known him . |
| 26 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 27 | He 's just joined the Squadron but he 's been flying for two years . ’ |