Example sentences of "[conj] he have [be] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 2 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 3 | Alexander Dubcek was re-elected chairman , although he had been in a coma since mid-September following a serious car accident . |
| 4 | Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary . |
| 5 | He may well be a transvestite , but I ca n't help wondering whether the make-up was simply a blind to ‘ Prove ’ , as it were , that he 'd been to a party that night , in case anyone picked him up . |
| 6 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 7 | Everyone would know he 'd become Rosa 's suitor , now that he 'd been to the house and paid a call after meeting her secretly at night . |
| 8 | In the week that he 'd been at the helm of the Anpetuwi ship there had been a remarkable change in atmosphere . |
| 9 | This was the first time that he had been past the big covered back porch of her house , and everything was new and interesting . |
| 10 | The man said that he had been with a woman . |
| 11 | Mr Aichi had had to withdraw his candidature for the governorship of Miyagi prefecture when it was revealed that he had been on the take . |
| 12 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 13 | His clothes suggested that he had been at a party and was anxious to get back to it . |
| 14 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 15 | There were found footprint evidences that young Brown had crossed and recrossed Hunder Beck , that he had been at the top of the high moor , and he was traced half way back , with probably thirty-six sheep which were recovered on Sunday . |
| 16 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 17 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 18 | And she knew that he had been to The Bar over thirty times in seven weeks now . |
| 19 | ‘ I did n't know you were religious , Balvinder , ’ surprised by his admission that he had been to the gurdwara . |
| 20 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 21 | Every time that he had been inside the Citadel he went home as soon as his day 's work was finished and scrubbed his body from toe to scalp . |
| 22 | He said that he had been in a corner of the bar talking to the landlord and friends during the time that the incident took place . |
| 23 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |
| 24 | To find a job he had to hide the fact that he had been in a mental hospital . |
| 25 | It was possible that he had been in the Rolls with his father on the Sunday night . |
| 26 | Another with a point to make is their captain and scrum-half Paul John , a greatly improved player who will at least let Rupert Moon , also an outstanding player , know that he 's been in a battle . |
| 27 | One is that he has been in the ring with Michael Gerard Tyson . |
| 28 | All this , I say , giving my gloss , can be read — and more particularly seen and heard , since Heseltine 's manner and presence carry their own conviction — as the utterance of a man demonstrating that he has been in the wilderness longer than it is in anyone 's interest . |
| 29 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 30 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |