Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] he have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't . |
| 2 | This season he has been OK . |
| 3 | In this role he has been responsible for LASMO 'S operated and non-operated North Sea projects . |
| 4 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 5 | Husameddin offers nothing in the way of specific evidence to support his statement either about Molla Yegan 's resignation or about Molla Fenari 's appointment , however , and is indeed at pains to say that in spite of much research he has been unable to find any signatures of Molla Fenari 's dating from this second kadilik . |
| 6 | Ironically , it was change that had driven Tubby back to active service — change in civvy street and in the set ways of the pre-war world he had been used to . |
| 7 | On his previous visit he 'd been full of gushing enthusiasm , trying to banish , or at least mask , the strange sense of unease it evoked . |
| 8 | On that occasion he had been ten years old As children between the wars , Yanto and his friends spent most of their Summers out in the estuary between tides . |
| 9 | Before going he had told us that firstly , all his carp had been caught on sweetcorn and bread and although fishing with boilies on one rod all week he had been able to get a take , in his words they just did not seem to eat them ; secondly , although there were plenty of carp on the surface they did not seem the least bit interested in floaters , and thirdly he was at a loss to know what one needed to do to put a cat on the bank . |
| 10 | Despite Finn 's hundreds of dollars , he still likes to wear old , tatty clothes + lead the rough life he has been used to . |
| 11 | ‘ It 's a very good thing he 's been involved in the pre-tour training at Lilleshall and is going along for the first three weeks of the Indian tour to bowl in the nets . |
| 12 | As Robinson put it : ‘ even with a less persuasive argument he has been able to get a democratic decision in his favour but the democratic process is used throughout the party ’ . |
| 13 | When she had telephoned Robert about breakfast-time , asking to see him about an important matter , he had seemed so astonished that the only place he had been able to suggest was here . |
| 14 | Zen decided to give him the only answer he had been able to come up with . |
| 15 | Eliot had a bad attack of bronchitis in June , which forced him to stay in bed for a week , but in July his sister , Marian , and a niece arrived from America and he went with them to Suffolk for ten days — the first holiday he had been able to take all year . |
| 16 | For the first time he had been unable to recover his self-possession , to escape from his humiliation . |
| 17 | It was the first time he had been alone and across the desk from the Deputy Under Secretary . |
| 18 | It had undoubtedly been the only time he 'd been able to relax . |
| 19 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 20 | When , quite soon after the funeral , seeing how calm she was , he had imagined that possibility he had been surprised at his reluctance to believe it . |
| 21 | She dragged up that other business he 'd been foolish enough to confide in her , that lost girl with the golden voice . |
| 22 | At that time he had been able to write to Lanfranc to ask if he remembered anything about these transactions . |
| 23 | But last night he had been different . |
| 24 | ( 11 ) Last week he had been unable to control the class . |
| 25 | All last week he had been happier than for thirty years ; he was in love , overwhelmed with the charms of Emily Dawson and the outrageous hope that she might return his affection and become his wife . |
| 26 | In the past month he has been busy in Scotland on Loch Lomond , and Lochs Woodhall and Ken near to Dumfries . |
| 27 | If he was indeed the highwayman who had terrorised the area for the past year he had been responsible for the murders of a number of men and women already . |
| 28 | For a number of weeks he was unable to train with his colleagues , but in the past fortnight he has been able to step up his training . |
| 29 | For a number of weeks he was unable to train with his colleagues , but in the past fortnight he has been able to step up his training . |