Example sentences of "[conj] he have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 2 | Why , it was almost half-past ten , yet there was no Ace , nor any signs that he 'd been downstairs before her . |
| 3 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 4 | Checking his watch , he found that he 'd been out of the cabin for a little over three hours . |
| 5 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 6 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 7 | Rostov shook his head , concealing the knowledge that he had been briefly in danger of his life . |
| 8 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 9 | In later years , Roderick confided that he had been far from happy with the title , for the book certainly was not " elementary " . |
| 10 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 11 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |
| 12 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 13 | A brief analysis of Primal Scream 's pop career has also taken place , rounded off by a sure-footed declaration from Craig that ‘ the only respect I have for Bobby Gillespie is that he 's been closer to Kylie Minogue 's fanny than I have . ’ |
| 14 | He gives them tremendous know-how , and the fact that he has been out for so long wo n't affect him . |
| 15 | To tell him that he has been always in my thoughts . |
| 16 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 17 | William always went that step further into life 's nightmares , and he 'd been closer to it , to start with . |
| 18 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 19 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 20 | Schofield 's Europe , that 's his second tour , and he 's been all round the blinking Europe |
| 21 | Brian Ashmore says he suffered his first heart attack thirteen years ago and he 's been back into the Princess Margaret Hospital in Swindon five times since with related problems . |
| 22 | If the adventurers ask about the Oracle himself , he will give only the barest of details ; that he is a seer into the future , a servant to his master ( Drachenfels ) , and he has been here for — he ca n't remember how long . |
| 23 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 24 | Mr Badillo is a lawyer with a full-time private practice , not a local political activist ; and he has been out of office since 1978 . |
| 25 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 26 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 27 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 28 | I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing . |
| 29 | He was fully dressed as if he had been out of the chateau . ’ |
| 30 | His presidency , in other words , might have ended less ingloriously if he had been more like his successor in the White House . |