Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] he have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The strongest argument we 've got is that has got a driving record worse than yours and he has been taken on despite that record . |
| 2 | When Ken called by later , he told me that he 'd been commanded to show me the sights the following afternoon . |
| 3 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Huston , however , told me that he had been persuaded to accept the job of directing the film before the script had been completed . |
| 6 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 7 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 8 | A grievance results from a member of staff feeling she or he has been treated unfairly ; the governing body must establish a procedure as a means whereby she or he can seek redress . |
| 9 | The Treasury approved Manners ' proposal on 24th November , and five days later the Office of Works wrote to Scott , informing him that he had been appointed architect to the new Foreign Office . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | However , on his freedom he returned to Saltash to call on Keast , thank him for his friendship and hospitality and assure him that he had been cured . |
| 12 | I could have told him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Academy Club drinking school run by Oofy Prosser and Stephen Hargrave , in recognition of his services to literature . |
| 13 | David told her that he had been thinking of working hard to get Amaranth Wilikins selected as the Conservative candidate for Arden in place of Sir Ralph . |
| 14 | So Marko told her that he had been ordered to build a tower out of elephants ' tusks . |
| 15 | When Sarah told her that he had been offered and refused a foreman 's job , Anne was bitterly angry that he had said nothing about it when they met the previous evening , but now she was unable to resist saying , ‘ Yes , that would be great , ’ as coolly as possible . |
| 16 | He 'd nothing to say to her ; he did n't even plan to tell her that he 'd been to see her . |
| 17 | One night Major , Deekie as he was known , came down to inspect and the young chappy who was on guard , he challenged him properly er before he allowed him to advance towards him but after he 'd advanced toward him and he 'd been recognized Major says is the rifle alright ? |
| 18 | But he looked up and smiled quite normally , and she did n't have the nerve to ask him if he had been listening . |
| 19 | The driver became suspicious when the man , dressed in a dark uniform approached him and asked him if he 'd been drinking . |
| 20 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 21 | The man got into the lift with her after he had been waiting in the foyer . |
| 22 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |
| 23 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 24 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |
| 25 | During the second burglary , which took place in December , Fenton had a knife with him , and he had said he was prepared to use it if he had been disturbed . |
| 26 | When one views the subsequent history of Vietnam , and Indonesia , however , it does not seem extravagant to claim that Mountbatten could hardly have made as bad a job of it if he had been left to his own devices . |
| 27 | Sometimes they would stroll under the leafy canopies of the Mardyke , where the river was not a river at all but a stream — his father used to say that you could n't even call it a branch of the Lee , perhaps a twig at best — often dried-up in summer and so narrow that he could nearly have jumped across it if he had been allowed ; at other times their route would take them down the Marina where the river was a broad rink-like expanse that copied in shimmering reflections the haughty hills of Montenotte drawing themselves up from its other side . |
| 28 | He wished that he could have listened to their conversation , but he would not have made much of it if he had been sitting at the next table . |
| 29 | His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well . |
| 30 | There is , he says , an old Lappish church near its eastern edge ; he has never seen it but he has been told of it by an old Lapp who lives near the lakes western edge . |