Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] he have been [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Women like the fact that he looks like he 's been rolling around in hay . |
| 2 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 3 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 4 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 5 | The trouble started after friends tried to stop him driving because he 'd been drinking . |
| 6 | More than one unwary member of the garrison found that his bed had vanished while he had been defending the rampart against a sepoy assault . |
| 7 | Just imagine if he 'd been sitting there with his legs dangling outside . |
| 8 | 1.11 In Roberts v Sparks [ 1977 ] CLY 2643 , where the plaintiff was thrown out of the defendant 's vehicle , the court reduced his damages by 25 per cent because the injuries he suffered would clearly have been avoided by wearing a seat belt ; but it added back 5 per cent for the injuries he would have suffered if he had been wearing a seat belt . |
| 9 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 10 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 11 | There were gulls flying and calling , but I had not disturbed the main colony , and I thought that I would have heard if he had been working below the cliffs at the north-west point . |
| 12 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 13 | I could not have cared if he had been lying out on those wild moors bleeding to death . |
| 14 | you 've got an order form closed , right you 've got a sumter closed , where you assume that the customer 's buying cos he 's been giving you buying signals , you 're hoping |
| 15 | His eyebrows would have disappeared if he 'd been wearing his helmet . |
| 16 | Now with this one the one we 've just done you do n't really know how far to go I mean I might have been going to ask erm how long has he been travelling if he 's been riding for a thousand hours . |
| 17 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 18 | He was asked if he 'd been drinking and he said he 'd a glass of wine . |
| 19 | Asked if he had been regarding his voice coaching , she said : ‘ I believe so . ’ |
| 20 | You do n't know , I mean he could of gone if he 'd been lying in a chair wa watching the |
| 21 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 22 | He looked the way he looked when he had been telling jokes and there were no more jokes to tell . |
| 23 | But it is a mistake , surely , to think of emotive meaning as a form of meaning in that most important sense of meaning in which we ask what someone meant by saying something , or what he would have meant if he had been speaking properly . |
| 24 | Hope smiled to himself : the smile broadened , and to disguise his true feelings he turned the smile on Mr Crump ; who was greatly encouraged as he had been talking about the slave trade on which much of his father 's great founding fortune had been based . |
| 25 | Edward was pale and she wondered if he 'd been eating pork crackling again which did n't agree with him , but he did n't seem sick . |
| 26 | And the lock did n't turn as he 'd been expecting it to — |