Example sentences of "[conj] he have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before joining had worked for for 33 years , where he had been a champion buttermaker . |
| 2 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 3 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 4 | The Goldsmiths summoned him to London , but did not refer to his local supporters , appointing him on 7th August because of his excellent testimonials from the Master and Fellows of Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he had been a student . |
| 5 | He was newly come today from Eltham , the king 's favourite manor , where he had been a witness at his Majesty 's proxy marriage to the widowed Duchess Joan of Brittany . |
| 6 | Although he had been a member of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate he had never been a true man of Congress . |
| 7 | It was Mr Deans 's first trip to an offshore installation , although he has been a seaman for a number of years . |
| 8 | Peter thought that he 'd been a fool to imagine that there might be something wrong between his hosts ; he put it down to an overactive imagination coloured by wishful thinking . |
| 9 | He told the recruiting officer that he 'd been a sergeant in the Boer War and boasted that he knew more about the Army than all these whipper-snappers who were waiting to join with him . |
| 10 | Andrew Beattie 's ‘ allegations ’ were , first , that he had been a member of a gang which had murdered the teenage boy ind girl at Abbey Meat Packers , Ltd. in the previous February and , second , that he had hijacked vehicles for road blocks during the UWC general strike . |
| 11 | It was no longer that he had been a member of the murder gang , but that he had presided over a meeting of UDA officers in order to plan it . |
| 12 | Allegations of a government-sponsored campaign against the PPP [ see pp. 38152 ; 38338 ] grew after a former adviser to Prime Minister Mian Nawaz Sharif claimed that he had been a member of one of two " election cells " created by Sharif 's Islamic Democratic Alliance ( IDA ) which had " rigged the 1990 elections by adding 20,000 bogus votes " in a number of constituencies to ensure the defeat of the PPP [ see pp. 37763-64 ] . |
| 13 | Galileo in a letter to Kepler ( who showed that the orbits must be ellipses , not circles with the foci at the Sun ) admitted that he had been a believer in Copernican theory for years but had been ‘ too timid ’ to say so for fear of ridicule . |
| 14 | It was true that Conchis was a recluse and never came to the village , but that he had been a collaborationist was a lie . |
| 15 | The post was offered as somewhat grudging recognition that he had been a signal success as leader of the first European colony in South America , a village called Santa Maria de la Antigua , on the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus . |
| 16 | ‘ I just do n't want an apartheid government in Namibia , ’ said Naftali Herunga , who confided that he had been a soldier , serving in 102 Battalion — an ethnic Herero unit — under the South Africans . |
| 17 | Only when they moved out and the lease was surrendered did Vaughan discover that he had been a victim of Minton 's generosity and had been paying only half his fair share . |
| 18 | All that he has is a right to apply for postponement under section 5(2) . |
| 19 | He was taken aback , and more confused than he 'd been a moment ago . |
| 20 | You could not , no , a miner once he 's been a miner , can not go down er a pit and say to anyone down a pit , and say to anyone down a pit , that he 's not a miner . |
| 21 | Yes , Arnold Thomas had done a bad thing in deserting him just when he needed him most , and he had been a rogue of the worst kind to have stolen money into the bargain ; but if he could only find his son , he would tell him that all was forgiven , and that he wanted him here , in his rightful place , at the helm of his father 's business . |
| 22 | The terrorist had hands identical to those of Louis and he had been a psychopath . |
| 23 | His name , he said , was Shlomo Green and he had been a refugee from Romania . |
| 24 | Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor |
| 25 | But he does , he lives in the churchyard , and he has done on and off , as you say , for a few years , and he 's been a bit of a most of the time he 's perfectly all right because he keeps himself to himself . |
| 26 | Herbie was Craigavon district Secretary 1979–87 and he has been a branch representative since 1978 . |
| 27 | He campaigned against the burial of irradiated waste in the UK , and Parliamentary commitments include serving on the select committe for employment , 1983–87 , and he has been a whip responsible for defence , energy , transports and Northern Ireland for several years . |
| 28 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 29 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 30 | What if he had been a vicar , a Methodist minister or a rabbi ? |