Example sentences of "[noun pl] he have [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Sun the man walked free after telling guards he had been attacked in the incident on Tuesday . |
| 2 | For centuries he has been looked upon as a sex maniac whose only interest in kittens is to kill them if he gets half a chance . |
| 3 | In desperation , the previous week , he had ordered the children to select a favourite passage from books he had been reading with them , write it out in their best handwriting and then add some comments on what they enjoyed about the piece and about the book in general . |
| 4 | Additionally , the buyer can claim damages which would be equivalent to the difference in cost of buying another similar computer elsewhere and any other expenses and losses he has been put to as a direct consequence of the breach , with the proviso that he mitigates his losses , that is , he keeps them to a minimum . |
| 5 | For months he had been haunted by his memories of the battle of Toulouse ; reliving the bowel-loosening terror he had felt at that last conflict of the last war . |
| 6 | You see , for months he 's been living on a diet of Minpins , and a thousand Minpins is not even a snack for him . |
| 7 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |
| 8 | In any case , if Parson Woodforde 's manservant Ben Leggatt found himself temporarily ‘ out of pocket ’ , all he had to do was to pawn the best pair of trousers he had been wearing over the weekend and redeem them in time for church on Sunday . |
| 9 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 10 | Perhaps she 'd heard his panting , and the promises he 'd been making in the dark . |
| 11 | He remarked that Royal Jubilees were unlucky for him : at the Georgian celebrations he had been injured by stone throwing . |
| 12 | The last few days he had been getting on her nerves . |
| 13 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 14 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 15 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 16 | For years he 's been looking for something to put his madness into . |
| 17 | For three years he 's been campaigning on behalf of his brother Gary Mills and another man Tony Poole . |
| 18 | For the past two years he 's been dreaming of bringing the marathon to Nepal … now he 's planning the big day … |
| 19 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 20 | Like Costner , David , 40 , has had to guard Whitney from hordes of obsessed fans in the four years he has been working for her . |
| 21 | There can be little doubt that Picasso was excited by the work that Braque brought back to Paris from l'Estaque in which he was drawing such original answers from the questions he had been putting to Cézanne 's art . |
| 22 | When Ellcock announced his retirement from first-class cricket at the age of 216 after Middlesex 's pre-season tour to Portugal , he was finally admitting defeat in a struggle to overcome back problems he has been fighting for much of his 10-year career . |
| 23 | The company had wanted him to transfer to London , in order to resume the computer studies he had been taking at school . |
| 24 | He told conference delegates he had been asked by the BNFL board and the Government to continue in his post for a short period after March 31 as his successor — John Guinness , currently Permanent Secretary in the DoE — could not easily be released from that post until after the general election . |
| 25 | He knew from the stories he had been told in the chapel that many people in days of old had seen God or one of God 's angels . |
| 26 | Quick-thinking James , 20 , switched off the gas and collected a damp cloth , while Darren used the fire-fighting techniques he 'd been learning on his weekend course in Surrey to tackle the blaze . |
| 27 | Before the last Test it seemed that Gooch would return home , annoyed at an article written about his South African connections by Lester Bird , the Deputy Prime Minister of Antigua , and tired of the hostile receptions he had been getting from press and public . |
| 28 | The reality of Gloucester 's influence there is also reflected in the fact that , of all the master foresterships he had been granted in 1471 , the only two he seems to have exercised were those which best complemented this trans-Pennine interest : Bowland to the north and Rossendale further south . |
| 29 | The reality of Gloucester 's influence there is also reflected in the fact that , of all the master foresterships he had been granted in 1471 , the only two he seems to have exercised were those which best complemented this trans-Pennine interest : Bowland to the north and Rossendale further south . |
| 30 | Evidence of a psychologist was heard on the voir dire , the essence of whose testimony was that when B had made the admissions he had been suffering from a relatively mild form of paranoid psychosis , the effect of which was that , under the stress of questioning , he would have felt very threatened , been likely to tell lies , and to make untrue admissions . |