Example sentences of "that he have been [v-ing] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |
2 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
3 | 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 . |
4 | 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 . |
5 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
6 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
7 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
8 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
9 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
10 | A big farmer admitted that he had been selling cotton stalks to agricultural labourers , a new trend in the region . |
11 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
12 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
13 | I heard a whisper that he 's been selling coins lately . |
14 | This will equally enable the Policyholder to replace the engine with one of similar type , capacity , age and size to the one lost — and therefore we will have provided him with indemnity under the Policy notwithstanding the fact that he has been paying premium on the value insured . |
15 | In the course of Abimelech 's questioning of Abraham it emerges that he has been claiming Sarah is his sister at every place they have been ! |
16 | Senna admitted yesterday after his third win that he has been having talks with Williams . |