Example sentences of "he have been [verb] for some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 2 | He has been writing for some time , starting with horror , and has more recently turned to the psychological thriller . |
| 3 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 4 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 5 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 6 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 7 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 10 | Reagan hammered away at themes which he had been developing for some years and which would be wheeled out every time he ran for public office . |
| 11 | He looked as if he had been waiting for some time . |
| 12 | He tried fitfully to proceed with a short prose book on the nature of culture which he had been contemplating for some time , but by the end of 1942 had produced only a first draft of two chapters : this must be the source of the four essays which appeared in the New English Weekly during January and February 1943 under the title , " Notes toward a Definition of Culture " . |
| 13 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 14 | No in fact he 's not , he 's been arrested for some other crime . |
| 15 | So I should n't think he 's been driving for some time and |