Example sentences of "[noun] he have [be] in [art] " in BNC.

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1 Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days .
2 one man who 's been losing pounds to go on the rally is Ade Jeffries from Gloucester … for the past two months he 's been in the local gym geting fit … he 's lost nearly two stone …
3 For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own .
4 David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group :
5 For the last week he 's been in a hospice with terminal cancer .
6 All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits .
7 He was sixty-four now , but as a young man he had been in the army and seen action on the North-West Frontier .
8 First there 's Gary Harris … four seasons in a row he 's been in the English boys team …
9 However , since he left school he has been in no further trouble with the police and , although unemployed , remains happily at home with his family .
10 Mr Prescott told the court that on the fateful evening Boxing Day last year he had been in the pub with Mr Maltby and another friend .
11 But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott .
12 It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him .
13 Yet on both occasions he had been in the vicinity of his own pit ; unsurprisingly because his house was only fifty yards from it .
14 Flook was arrested after he told his mother he had been in an accident and she contacted the police .
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