Example sentences of "[adv] he have [been] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But from the moment she 'd come downstairs he 'd been a different man . |
| 2 | But lately he 's been a real pain in the neck . |
| 3 | He retired formally from Harland & Wolff in 1906 , although effectively he had been a sleeping partner for over ten years . |
| 4 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 5 | Since then he has been an active backbencher , chairing the influential Treasury and Civil Service select committee . |
| 6 | Initially he had been an unwilling host . |
| 7 | Though indeed he had been a civil servant , Chambers was one of the foremost literary scholars in England . |
| 8 | And er of course he went in , he was real regimental , again he 'd been an old soldier . |