Example sentences of "[noun sg] [that] he have be [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 2 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 3 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 4 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 5 | At the door which led back on to the landing he was looking around for a prop or a wedge to pin it open when he thought of the parcel that he 'd been hugging since the zoo . |
| 6 | She heard Ben come into the market-room , but when the kitchen door did not immediately open , she went over to it and saw him throwing off a wet sack that he had been wearing over his head and shoulders like a cape . |
| 7 | As the hon. Gentleman will know , the recent adjournment is to allow the provisional liquidator to formalise details of the compensation package that he has been negotiating with the Government of Abu Dhabi . |
| 8 | This , combined with the previous episode , created suspicion that he had been malingering to avoid going into action and resulted in his being charged with cowardice . |
| 9 | De Gaulle recognized that the crisis that he had been anticipating since 1946 had finally arrived . |
| 10 | ( Charles also got the message that he was n't going to get the quick slurp of wine at the end of the evening that he had been promising himself . ) |
| 11 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 12 | Finished , the job that he 'd been putting off for most of the day . |
| 13 | All the while that he had been speaking , he had used the same flat , expressionless tone . |
| 14 | Half of the salary disappeared in mess fees and for the headquarter 's servants , but Sharpe still felt rich , and it was a far better reward than the two shillings and ninepence a day that he had been receiving as a half-pay lieutenant . |
| 15 | ‘ It came out in the court that he had been robbing old ladies … confidence trickster was the word . |
| 16 | The Brigadier set down a fat puppy that he had been holding and squelched towards the yard , driving a dozen pullets before him . |
| 17 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 18 | And he was glad to have an excuse to put off telling her the news that he 'd been keeping to himself . |
| 19 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |
| 20 | If this went on much longer , the real Robert Wilson might emerge — that awful , jelly-like creature that he had been hiding from the world for the last twenty-four years . |
| 21 | Later , over coffee , Steven broached the subject that he had been waiting all day to discuss with Jennifer . |
| 22 | He 'll be returning to an empty fairground of deserted stalls , with only the faint remembered echo of the music that he 's been ignoring . |
| 23 | Alexander then placed two extra mirrors either side of the original mirror that he had been using . |
| 24 | When one complainant alleged that he had been sitting in the Common Bench while the complainant had had his proper challenges to jurors refused , the auditors of complaints simply accepted his statement that he had been sitting on the bench not as a justice but as a well-wisher of the complainant 's opponent ( the prior of Sempringham ) . |
| 25 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 26 | Robert denied a defence suggestion that he had been advancing on his brother and his family with his knife when he was shot . |
| 27 | Well Notts went wide of the target on eight minutes , it was er all really set up by Gary with a little header down to Paul , inside right channel , lobbed it on to , the defence was wide open and who had n't scored this season got the very goal that he 's been wanting to score to add to his match winning performance on Saturday , when he was made the patrons ' player of the match and er he thumped the ball in the net , it was quite a blistering effort and Notts should 've settled down on that and certainly should 've settled down on twenty one . |
| 28 | His ankle bone had been badly grazed a week before by a metal panel that he had been working on which had slipped from his grasp . |
| 29 | The whole idea that he 'd been thinking about since Christmas seemed pointless all of a sudden . |
| 30 | Was it annoyance that he had been avoiding her , as she had been avoiding him ? |