Example sentences of "he have been [v-ing] 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 | ‘ I believe he had been planning that warning for some time . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 : |
| 6 | He had been performing that little number when these kids were wetting their diapers . |
| 7 | Well he should change his jumper , he 's been wearing that for about two weeks now . |
| 8 | He 's been doing that sort of thing for years . |
| 9 | Oh he 's pleased what he 's been doing that |
| 10 | He 's been doing that album . |
| 11 | He 's been saying that over a year . |