Example sentences of "[conj] he have [be] [v-ing] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd thought at the time — fleetingly , without really dwelling on it — that he 'd been referring to Arnie with these remarks . |
| 2 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 3 | The publican replied that he 'd been talking to his dog . |
| 4 | But in his heart he knew that he had been speaking to a troubled spirit , a spirit that had something terrible to confess . |
| 5 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 6 | His comment also meant that he had been listening to her conversation with the receptionist in Dublin — because he had still been bored ? |
| 7 | When she began to protest , he claimed he was getting help on an out-patient basis , and that he had been going to AA . |
| 8 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
| 9 | So he has got the scrum right , just as if he had been listening to Graham Price all along . |
| 10 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 11 | Erm , if he 's been going to er , erm , in the unlikely , er , twelve months , that it 's unlikely that he 's going to have more than twelve months to live . |
| 12 | Well , to be honest , it seems to , I Peter 's got the details cos he 's been talking to er , the public health clerk . |
| 13 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 14 | 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 ? ’ |
| 15 | He had spent most of the morning frowning , except when he had been talking to Sir William Paice and others . |
| 16 | On their wedding night he was drunk , and she was affectionate and clinging , and it was as hopeless as he had been predicting to himself . |