Example sentences of "[that] he have [been] [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards his father died : he felt that he had been punished for expecting too much . |
| 3 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 4 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 5 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 6 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 7 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 8 | In the following year his son-in-law ( Sir ) John Wolley [ q.v. ] told him that he had been recommended for the vice-presidency of Wales . |
| 9 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 10 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 11 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 12 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 13 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 14 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 15 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 16 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |
| 17 | The trouble with the right hon. Gentleman is that he has been searching for a way to do nothing about this problem . |
| 18 | Mr Gummer has used the guest house for every Tory conference since his student days and he told friends that he has been rewarded for his continued custom with the best room in the house . |
| 19 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 20 | I feel that he has been waiting for me to get home so he can demonstrate this talent . |