Example sentences of "[noun] he have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She said he was from Moila , and ever since he was a boy he 'd been a sort of con artist , and could get away with anything- ’ |
| 2 | Before the war he had been an academic . |
| 3 | Over both his superiors to some small extent he wielded a moral advantage ; on the Army List , he was Falkenhayn 's senior and had been his immediate predecessor in command of the 4th Guard Regiment ; and just before the war he had been the Crown Prince 's mentor in tactics and strategy . |
| 4 | In those days he had been a smoker . |
| 5 | The Dungarvan Leader once commended a candidate " with a record of achievement " in these revealing terms : " He has consistently fought in the Waterford County Council ( of which body he has been a member for many years ) for amenities for the town , and it was thanks to his representations that the long-suffering residents of the old road had a footpath provided in front of their homes to prevent flooding . |
| 6 | He had been trained in England , at Sandhurst , and for the past fifteen years he had been an officer in the Imperial Guard . |
| 7 | He has strong interests in education , and management training and much experience of negotiating with government , something that we all need in N C V O. For some years he 's been a member of the Council for Voluntary Service Overseas . |
| 8 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 9 | For several years he has been a helper , and having decided to return to Birmingham where he had a distinguished career as a teacher of English , he resolved to give us the greater part of the library , collected over many years by himself and his late wife . |
| 10 | For the last two years he has been a hospital porter . |
| 11 | For many years he has been the Fund Raising Organizer for the British Rail Support Group , Condover Hall School for the Blind , a position he still holds . |
| 12 | SOUTH AFRICA 'S first non-white Test cricketer claimed last night he has been the victim of death threats in his bid to break through the barriers of apartheid . |
| 13 | Almost from the start he has been a university teacher who has , so to speak , a ‘ hard hat and a pair of stout wellington boots constantly in his car ’ . |
| 14 | This season he has been a revelation . |
| 15 | For most of his life he has been a Salvation Army member and for seven years the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 16 | He said , I 'll get onto them and I 'll tell him he has to come and clean your windows he 's been a bit busy . |
| 17 | In the outgoing government he had been a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Communications and Institutional Reform . |
| 18 | Apart from his initial training he has been a weaver all his time . |
| 19 | In his days of better health he had been a crack sportsman , and even managed to play golf to a single figure handicap despite his lost leg . |
| 20 | As a youth he had been a rip . |
| 21 | It was the sixth time in a year he 'd been a victim of crime , but this time the culprits , two youths , had been arrested . |
| 22 | He was a short man , barrel-built , and his physique was suited to the paratroop unit he had been a part of before his transfer from the active service troops of the Red Army , to the mind-twisting boredom of Ministry of the Interior camp supervision . |
| 23 | In his own time he had been a maverick , and for being a maverick his grateful sovereign had pinned on his chest the gallantry medal of the Military Cross . |
| 24 | It was not the first time he had been the recipient of an undiplomatic reference to the absence of colonial genes in Alexei 's physique , manner and appearance . |
| 25 | At one time he had been the leader of the local rescue brigade and was familiar with the use of breathing apparatus . |
| 26 | He had achieved next to nothing in his own room , and in the laboratory he had been the victim of Reuben God Almighty Boll 's sarcasm . |