Example sentences of "[noun sg] he has [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | The question is , if he has subsequently borrowed more from the testator , up to what point he has been released from his debts . |
| 6 | Silva , who went on to make a 30-footer for an eagle at the second , insists that the confidence he has been given by Mansell 's support has counted for as much , if not more , than the money . |
| 7 | The only bookcase he has is stacked with video tapes whose titles I do not read . |
| 8 | George Hann says that in the years he has known about the business he has been approached on many occasions by people who ‘ come over as being very convincing but who turned out not to be genuine . |
| 9 | There is no reason , and he declines the verbal advice he has been given by his Inspector , so this has now become an ‘ order ’ . |
| 10 | Jarrett , who has a personal best of 13.04 , has been summer training in Portugal and already this season he has been timed at 13.33 … if the NIAAF can arrange to bring Jackson along to Belfast , it will be another clash to savour . |
| 11 | But it is also the tragedy of William Bentley , a tragedy because he too is a boy caught in circumstances which he is incapable of understanding and which will , finally , leave him totally unfit for the life he has been trained for . |
| 12 | It 's natural that Yuri should so enjoy dressing down , when for some much of his life he has been zipped into elaborate Bolshoi costumes , his cheekbones and eyes accented by thick , expertly applied theatrical make-up . |
| 13 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 14 | He has lost twice , to Michael Watson and Eubank , but at the increased poundage he has been extended by Sugar Boy Malinga and Lenzie Morgan . |
| 15 | With less reason he has been equated with the one-time dux Asclipius , who led Guntram 's men against Chilperic 's guards in Paris in 582 . |
| 16 | The way he has been treated by Kinnock has infuriated me , and Labour 's failure to adopt strong gay policies is disastrous . |
| 17 | Ever since Machiavelli wrote The Prince and The Discourses in the sixteenth century he has been associated with the ugly side of political activity . |
| 18 | The news comes the day before Johan Egelstedt , 19 , leaves the family he has been staying with in Leicester to return to Sweden and resume his education . |
| 19 | Indeed it is perhaps a pity that he did not take his own advice , after writing in the New Guide ‘ for the author of the present work might with greater ease , and probably with more advantage to himself , have worked up for the amusement of the eye a number of drawings and paintings during the time he has been engaged in this matter of mere utility ’ . |