Example sentences of "that he have been [v-ing] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 3 | 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 ! |
| 4 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 5 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 6 | A big farmer admitted that he had been selling cotton stalks to agricultural labourers , a new trend in the region . |
| 7 | 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 . |