Example sentences of "he have [adv] been [v-ing] with " in BNC.
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| 1 | He watched Gerald Kaufman buy a copy of the Evening Standard ; he had probably been lunching with the BBC . |
| 2 | At a White House meeting on 10 November Reagan argued that he had not been dealing with terrorists in Iran but only moderates . |
| 3 | Now she saw that he had just been dealing with the easy , practical part first . |
| 4 | Over his face quivered shades of the sniggers he had just been enjoying with his mates . |
| 5 | He had a half-beard and he looked dirty , as if he had just been working with hammers and bricks and wood and chisels . |
| 6 | So Trumbull started moving the camera in and out , and stopped the lens down to a tiny aperture for maximum depth of field ( he had already been experimenting with zoom lenses for the cockpit readouts in other sequences ) . |
| 7 | He had merely been playing with her . |
| 8 | He had obviously been arguing with it — when Masklin walked up he glared at him and said , ‘ It wo n't do what I tell it ! ’ |