Example sentences of "[num ord] [noun sg] he have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Eliot had a bad attack of bronchitis in June , which forced him to stay in bed for a week , but in July his sister , Marian , and a niece arrived from America and he went with them to Suffolk for ten days — the first holiday he had been able to take all year . |
| 2 | For the first time he had been unable to recover his self-possession , to escape from his humiliation . |
| 3 | It was the first time he had been alone and across the desk from the Deputy Under Secretary . |
| 4 | But last night he had been different . |
| 5 | ( 11 ) Last week he had been unable to control the class . |
| 6 | All last week he had been happier than for thirty years ; he was in love , overwhelmed with the charms of Emily Dawson and the outrageous hope that she might return his affection and become his wife . |