Example sentences of "[be] that he [verb] been [v-ing] " in BNC.

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1 A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there .
2 Our latest information is that he 's been working as a waiter at a bar called Flamingo . ’
3 The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem .
4 I felt that way myself — the difference was that he had been living longer .
5 His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant .
6 His excuse was that he had been praying .
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