Example sentences of "he have be [v-ing] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has been threatening to do that all season and this was his best performance to date . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd been going to say important or fashionable . |
| 3 | He had been trying to put inorganic chemistry into an intelligible form for his students at the University of St Petersburg , when ( in common with various contemporaries in various countries ) he realized that if the elements are set out in order of increasing atomic weight , they display periodicity : similar elements recur at regular intervals . |
| 4 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 5 | They were of special interest to Mr Dalyell as he had been attempting to get more information from ministers about the sinking of the General Belgrano . |
| 6 | DPP ( 1954 ) D , who was sexually impotent , was taunted about his impotence and kicked in the groin by a prostitute with whom he had been attempting to have sexual intercourse , whereupon he lost self-control and killed her . |
| 7 | Ashley stopped whatever he had been going to say next with a humourless laugh . |
| 8 | For a year now he 's been trying to avoid packaged and drilled TV appearances , and enduring repetitive questions from bemused Europeans about sampling or acid house But he 's still managed to have some fun . |