Example sentences of "[noun] he have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last three worked passably ; the March car he had was a fiasco . |
| 2 | Previously the only vehicle he had was a car llusg — a slide-car , one of the most primitive vehicles used in animal traction . |
| 3 | 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- ’ |
| 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 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 . |
| 7 | For twenty five years he has been a member of Equity and has played a different number of roles . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | For the last two years he has been a hospital porter . |
| 10 | 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 ’ . |
| 11 | This season he has been a revelation . |
| 12 | For most of his life he has been a Salvation Army member and for seven years the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | In the outgoing government he had been a Deputy Prime Minister and Minister of Communications and Institutional Reform . |
| 15 | Apart from his initial training he has been a weaver all his time . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | As a youth he had been a rip . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | 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 . |