Example sentences of "[conj] he have been [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
2 The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years .
3 We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock .
4 Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations .
5 People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room .
6 It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months .
7 He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing .
8 He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential .
9 What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars .
10 She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name .
11 But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly .
12 If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos .
13 But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position .
14 Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms .
15 It was a long time since he had been like this .
16 When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods .
17 Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book .
18 Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing .
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