Example sentences of "have been [v-ing] the truth " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been telling the truth . |
| 2 | Gustav need n't have been telling the truth about the Allies — though it sounds as if he might have been telling it about his wife . |
| 3 | Florian stopped his theatrically narrow-eyed scrutiny of Maria and grinned at Luke , who must have been telling the truth because he was all attention , no less than riveted . |
| 4 | Sarah had been too ill to defend herself , and besides , in a way Elizabeth Bradford had been telling the truth . |
| 5 | Charles was relieved that the information put her in the clear ; she had been telling the truth . |
| 6 | So perhaps Lesley-Jane had been telling the truth in her description of the relationship . |
| 7 | He knew Phil Jordan 's home number and dialled it , hoping Jordan had been telling the truth about going home . |
| 8 | He needed to think , because although he was sure that Andrus had been speaking the truth , and that he had not deliberately incited Zoser to kill , he still felt puzzled . |
| 9 | She 'd told him she wanted a break from her own very successful career — that had been bending the truth more than a little , but taking over the club , putting her own life on hold for a little while , had seemed a small price to pay for her father 's health . |