Example sentences of "[adv] he have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So he had been a gardener at the Château de la Faté . |
| 2 | She felt disturbed ; thinking of the gleaming Karl with his polished manners and mannered poise , and of how once he had been a boy . |
| 3 | Well he has been a bit |
| 4 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 5 | Presumably he had been a football fan but it has not been possible to discover whether he supported Liverpool or Everton . |
| 6 | He had been a soldier for almost all his life , but of late he had been a farmer in Normandy , drawn to the land of his enemies by a woman met by chance in the chaos of peace . |
| 7 | Doyle had experienced Len Hatch when he had been a policeman on the beat . |
| 8 | Mr Wolski could not help remembering a time when he had been a fugitive outside the fences of Sobibor in the scrubland of the Parczew Forest . |
| 9 | In January 1983 Mansur Rajih was arrested in Yemen by members of al-Amn al-Watani ( National Security ) on his return from Lebanon where he had been a university student . |
| 10 | The letter-writer is an orthopaedic surgeon who was taken off a plane as he was about to make a short visit to the UK where he had been a post-graduate student . |