Example sentences of "[conj] he have [been] [verb] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He shivered , remembering a dream where he had been riding north into the mountains with a woman who was not his wife . |
| 2 | Jose Urbina Lara , leader of the group , who stormed the embassy on 8 March , stayed behind at the airport but was expected to leave later for the Dominican Republic , where he has been granted asylum . |
| 3 | Although he had been writing letters for months he was still only a quarter of the way through the names beginning with ‘ A , . |
| 4 | The Edwardian informed me recently that he 'd been appointed trade attaché in one of our Central American embassies . |
| 5 | So much for Candy 's theory that he 'd been stalking Rory ! |
| 6 | Pascoe realized that he 'd been asking questions that Susan had n't answered . |
| 7 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 8 | A second and earlier poem Moliant Cadwallon ( ‘ In Praise of Cadwallon ’ ) , possibly by Cadwallon 's bard , Afan Ferddig , celebrates Cadwallon 's victorious progress against Eadwine ‘ the deceitful ’ after his return from Ireland , where he may have been in exile , though an alternative possibility is that he had been gathering reinforcements there . |
| 9 | The Treasury approved Manners ' proposal on 24th November , and five days later the Office of Works wrote to Scott , informing him that he had been appointed architect to the new Foreign Office . |
| 10 | It was , therefore , with a certain displeasure , that I received , one Friday evening , Nigel 's announcement that he had been sent details of a converted mill in Wales and we 'd better drive up the next morning to take a look at it . |
| 11 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 12 | When the code was broken , it was found that he had been taking placebo rather than ursodeoxycholic acid . |
| 13 | It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers . |
| 14 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 15 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 16 | He pointed to the sky and then to the clearing , to the path that led to the cabin where Sycorax lay , and Kit understood that he had been granted permission to remain three cycles of the moon . |
| 17 | The accused claimed that he had been granted permission by a supervisor to take scrap tyres from a certain firm . |
| 18 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 19 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 20 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 21 | A big farmer admitted that he had been selling cotton stalks to agricultural labourers , a new trend in the region . |
| 22 | The letter reveals that Turberville 's sons had been kept in Paris as hostages , and that he had been promised £100 worth of land as his reward for treachery . |
| 23 | Mr Reid said the matter came to light after a pupil informed a teacher that he had been offered drugs by the suspended boy . |
| 24 | Dudley Wood , the Rugby Football Union 's secretary , said yesterday : ‘ I spoke to Brian Moore a little while ago because there was a story that he had been offered money , although the amount was n't specified . |
| 25 | But although ‘ Tuxy ’ Girdle may not have been a youthful Hooligan , it did emerge that he had been running whores and he received a substantial sentence of penal servitude for the assault on the man whom the gang had suspected of being a police spy . |
| 26 | To the end — or at least to his testimony in Poindexter 's trial , in 1990 — Reagan maintained he did not believe that he had been trading arms for hostages . |
| 27 | A month ago , then , when Mr. James Russell died , the word was passed to John Russell through Mr. Mendez that he had been left Russell 's place outside Contention . |
| 28 | I heard a whisper that he 's been selling coins lately . |
| 29 | This will equally enable the Policyholder to replace the engine with one of similar type , capacity , age and size to the one lost — and therefore we will have provided him with indemnity under the Policy notwithstanding the fact that he has been paying premium on the value insured . |
| 30 | In the course of Abimelech 's questioning of Abraham it emerges that he has been claiming Sarah is his sister at every place they have been ! |