Example sentences of "[noun] [conj] he have been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 2 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 3 | For example , one Lambodar Gorain has been held in Ranchi Jail since 18th June 1970 , for an offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act … with the result that he has been in prison for eight and a half years for an offence for which even if convicted , he could not have been awarded more than two years imprisonment … . |
| 4 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 5 | His name was Roberto Coloni and he had been in hospital following a bad fall in which he had broken his shoulder blade , forearm and two ribs , as well as suffering bad concussion , which had affected his hearing . |
| 6 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 7 | In the autumn of 1955 , some six months after he had been in Berlin , Blake approached his superiors with the suggestion that he should pretend to become an agent working for the Russians . |
| 8 | Auguste broke off , none too pleased to be interrupted on a mere matter of murder when he had been in a world of his own , exalted by the power of cuisine . |
| 9 | According to one report , Vincent was as dismissive of academic study as he had been in Amsterdam . |
| 10 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 11 | ‘ I did n't know you were religious , Balvinder , ’ surprised by his admission that he had been to the gurdwara . |
| 12 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 13 | His first position was with the old Edinburgh Corporation as a trainee valuer and he has been with Lothian Regional Council since reorganisation in 1975 . |
| 14 | Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance . |
| 15 | Captain Allan Border said : ‘ Obviously I feel a bit sorry for Jonesy because he 's been in the side for a long time . |
| 16 | Hungarian-born pianist Gyorgy Gziffra has never been as well known , or for that matter , as well regarded in England as he has been on the Continent or in the USA . |
| 17 | He was just as fussy on the North Shore as he had been in France . |
| 18 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 19 | I think he is security cos he 's been in a couple of times has n't he ? |
| 20 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's made a marvellous recovery since he 's been with us in Barbados . |
| 22 | It was ten years since he had been in Europe . |
| 23 | ‘ We caught Kenny after he had been off the road and were worried that he was going to hold us up because we knew Nolan was catching up quickly , ’ explains Dean . |
| 24 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 25 | However , his appearance had been that of an eighteen-year-old , which makes nonsense for a second time of the press claims that Lord Haw-Haw was as puny in appearance as he had been in his human sympathies . |
| 26 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |
| 27 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 28 | He intended no offence to Scott , who was the leading living architect , and only wanted to appeal to his good sense and taste , but he could not understand Street 's attack on him , whose attitude that ‘ no one is an architect until he has been in Rome ’ , is the same as our grandfathers . |
| 29 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 30 | Glaisdale almost certainly needed that outing for he had been off the course for more than three months . |