Example sentences of "that he have been [v-ing] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 2 | ‘ It came out in the court that he had been robbing old ladies … confidence trickster was the word . |
| 3 | On closer questioning it was found that he had been harbouring strong transsexual feelings for some while and that the injury resulted from an urge to initiate a sex change . |
| 4 | It transpired that he had been sleeping rough for weeks and that his last known address was a Salvation Army hostel 100 miles away . |
| 5 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |