Example sentences of "he [verb] been [verb] that " in BNC.
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| 1 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 2 | He has been advised that rest is the only remedy for a recurring groin strain . |
| 3 | Mr Hooke says he has been told that Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers . |
| 4 | Because of his experience , he 'd been taken further into God 's Kingdom , he 'd been given that vision into God 's Kingdom , now that 's more than just been given your eyesight , cos there 's a lot of people will see , who have their eyesight intact , but refuse to have the vision that was necessary to accept Jesus , new kingdom . |
| 5 | He 'd been told that often enough in the old days . |
| 6 | He was he 'd been hurt that was the usu that 's why some of the men did . |
| 7 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 8 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 9 | He had been christened that morning and died the same afternoon . |
| 10 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 11 | By the time they met , Leonard was indeed pushing hard at the doors of his own individuality — in one sense he had been doing that for years . |
| 12 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 13 | He had been doing that throughout his poetry — as he had said more than thirty years earlier , in " Portrait of a , Lady " , " And I must borrow every changing shape/To find expression … " but the process reaches its culmination in " Little Gidding " where he creates a replica of Dante 's terza rima : |
| 14 | He had been performing that little number when these kids were wetting their diapers . |
| 15 | Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there . |
| 16 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |
| 17 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
| 18 | Oh he 's pleased what he 's been doing that |
| 19 | He 's been doing that album . |
| 20 | He 's been saying that over a year . |