Example sentences of "[noun sg] he have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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1 | Like many other boys with India in his blood he had been forced into rootlessness by education . |
2 | Climbing to his feet , the tall sheriff pocketed the small hand-mirror he had been holding to Grant 's lips . |
3 | As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence . |
4 | Bowie has already made a name for himself as an actor in a string of top movies , including The Hunger and The Man Who Fell To Earth , but this is the TV break he has been waiting for . |
5 | A commodity never difficult to find , in John-William 's experience , particularly now when the Chartist leaders , who had been locked up after the troubles of 1839 , were all out of prison again ; except for that Sheffield lad , of course , who 'd died at twenty-seven , from the hard labour he 'd been put to at Northallerton jail . |
6 | But in 1877 , the last text overseen by the novelist , ‘ as if spoken to himself ’ becomes ‘ as if meant for himself ’ , shifting and refining nuance while involving the change of a single word in Russian , and enabling the artist to get at last the effect he had been working towards . |
7 | No wonder he 's been looking for an excuse to get rid of you . ’ |
8 | During the winter he had been heartened by the success of the diminutive Peter Senior . |
9 | He had completed a first draft by July 1941 , but he told Hayward that he was not pleased with the result because he was over-conscious of what he was attempting to do : " he was always aware of this problem in his work , and it had effectively led him to abandon much of the poetry he had been writing in his Harvard years . |
10 | He concluded by referring to some work he had been doing on Tennyson . |
11 | Truth had had to go by the board in the work he had been doing during the war and there seemed no point in insisting on using it again . |
12 | He does n't know how to go about the work he has been put in charge of , and yet the successful solution of this case will be a great coup for him , politically . |
13 | His twice broken kneecap still bears the scars — for Lawrence today was the test he 's been waiting for . |
14 | Her husband countered this on the grounds of the divorce he had been granted in Reno . |
15 | Abruptly , Ratagan threw the chunk of bread he had been gnawing into the fire . |
16 | As a boy he had been crippled by polio . |
17 | As a child he had been taken by his father for walks every Sunday always along the banks of the Lee . |
18 | He himself was still quietly married to a girl he had been introduced to at high school . |
19 | And as Morse opened his passenger door , he stood for a while looking up at the Pole Star , and asking himself the question he had been asking for the past two hours : was there any way in which Downes could still have been the murderer after all ? |
20 | But what was wrong with the metal wood he had been employing off the tee ? |
21 | Slowly , he put down the silver pen he had been toying with and stood up , walking to her at the windows . |
22 | Dr Hadley , who had asked the questions , ceased to play with the two-toned ball pen he had been using as a remote muscle of his tongue . |
23 | He had been a founding member of the Socialist Youth Movement , and after fighting in the civil war he had been held in detention in ( French ) camps in Algeria , before moving to the Soviet Union . |
24 | Before the war he had been stationed in Holland , during the war he had served with MI6 in Turkey and , in mid-1944 , had been appointed head of MI6 's operations in Berne , in Switzerland . |
25 | Mr Boris Yeltsin , the president of Russia , may have won the battle , but he has not yet won the war he has been fighting for more than half a year with the Congress of People 's Deputies . |
26 | This was the moment he had been waiting for since his ordination . |
27 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
28 | But the job he had been given by the Mossad agents , who traded ruthlessly on his love of his sister , was a narcotic to him . |
29 | In line with a January 1990 central government request for the resignation of all State governors , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Rustom Khushro Shaporjee Gandhi resigned as Governor of Himachal Pradesh , a post he had been appointed to in April 1986 . |
30 | However , he decided instead to take up the post he had been offered of Captain and Governor of the Isle of Wight . |