Example sentences of "[art] [noun sg] he have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time Willie had had so many children at the cottage he had been sick . |
| 2 | Adeane was also unhappy about his association with Operation Raleigh , an ambitious round-the-world sailing venture , the second he had been involved with , run by the explorer John Blashford-Snell . |
| 3 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 4 | In the dim light of the evening he had been magnificent . |
| 5 | Before the race he had been tense , after it his fury had seemed spontaneous and genuine . |
| 6 | Timothy Harris admitted to the court he had been jealous of the pretty teenager 's friendship with other young men and he was desperate to have sex with her . |
| 7 | A third guard in the van , Anthony Edwards , told the court he 'd been petrified he might be shot . |
| 8 | This is remarkable , given how little evidence he really had for his theory and how much of the evidence he had was wrong ! |
| 9 | From the outset he had been dismayed to learn how little they 'd progressed . |
| 10 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 11 | Morals and Manners in Islam was the only book on the subject he had been able to find in Wimbledon public Library . |
| 12 | Mostly , the furniture he has been concerned with up to now is the dining table . |
| 13 | Land in the more rural parts of the constituency is virtually covered with placards urging voters to support Mr Bates and since the by-election he has been involved in setting up a forum for local farmers to air their views . |
| 14 | Mark Clayton 's cooking has progressed in the year he has been head chef at Eastwell Manor , near Ashford , Kent . |
| 15 | Not that he could ever have afforded to buy those kind of designer clothes on his meagre wage but with the money he had received to throw the American and his beautiful assistant , or rather partner , off the scent he had been able to splash out for once in his life . |
| 16 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 17 | As a child he had been unable to cope with the passions around him ; he had hidden himself away in books , consoling himself with golden reveries . |
| 18 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 19 | It was not like Karr to use his privilege so crudely and for a moment he had been concerned by his friend 's behaviour . |
| 20 | Within minutes of being given the treatment his walking was much improved , and the following day he was walking around without any sticks and was also able to climb up and down stairs unaided — a thing he had been unable to do for at least two years . |
| 21 | ICC chairman Sir Colin Cowdrey ( left ) is clearly furious that every time he has been ready to make a statement about the Texaco Trophy events of August 23 , Pakistan 's lawyers have threatened writs . |
| 22 | Lord Lane paid tribute to his ‘ team ’ of judges and revealed that over the past four years he had reviewed almost 1,500 life sentences — a task he had been unable to delegate and which he willingly relinquished to his successor , Lord Justice Taylor . |
| 23 | The Deputy Director of the SIS was a man you could pass in the street without noticing , an effect he 'd been careful to cultivate . |
| 24 | Perhaps because this was an interview he had been glad to postpone , even temporarily . |
| 25 | Frumentarii , both cavalry decurions , for instance , are known to have served at Tiffen and Feldkirchen in the mining district of Noricum , while an official bearing the title immunis consularis curas agens vico Saloduro is recorded from Solothurn near Augst ; as an immunis he had been relieved of all other military duties by the provincial governor in order to oversee the village community of the Vicus Salodurus . |