Example sentences of "[noun] he have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Sun the man walked free after telling guards he had been attacked in the incident on Tuesday . |
| 2 | Like many other boys with India in his blood he had been forced into rootlessness by education . |
| 3 | For centuries he has been looked upon as a sex maniac whose only interest in kittens is to kill them if he gets half a chance . |
| 4 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
| 5 | As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence . |
| 6 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
| 7 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
| 8 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
| 9 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 10 | Additionally , the buyer can claim damages which would be equivalent to the difference in cost of buying another similar computer elsewhere and any other expenses and losses he has been put to as a direct consequence of the breach , with the proviso that he mitigates his losses , that is , he keeps them to a minimum . |
| 11 | For months he had been haunted by his memories of the battle of Toulouse ; reliving the bowel-loosening terror he had felt at that last conflict of the last war . |
| 12 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 13 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
| 14 | During the winter he had been heartened by the success of the diminutive Peter Senior . |
| 15 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
| 16 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
| 17 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
| 18 | He does n't know how to go about the work he has been put in charge of , and yet the successful solution of this case will be a great coup for him , politically . |
| 19 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
| 20 | Before leaving England he had been hankering after his American roots , not only in those sections of Ash-Wednesday which recall the New England coast , but also in his prose , invoking , for instance , his old master Josiah Royce , who was now mostly forgotten , ‘ but a great philosopher in his day ’ . |
| 21 | Her husband countered this on the grounds of the divorce he had been granted in Reno . |
| 22 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
| 23 | As a boy he had been crippled by polio . |
| 24 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 25 | Told Tyler Beck he 'd been hit by a truck . |
| 26 | As a child he had been taken by his father for walks every Sunday always along the banks of the Lee . |
| 27 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |
| 28 | He himself was still quietly married to a girl he had been introduced to at high school . |
| 29 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
| 30 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |