Example sentences of "[adv] he have been [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he had been an illusion . |
| 2 | So he had been a gardener at the Château de la Faté . |
| 3 | In their dealings in the office they 'd worked well together , achieved an excellent rapport regarding the PR for the business fair , but somehow he 'd been the model of teasing aloofness , apparently with more time for Stephanie Marsa than for Caroline . |
| 4 | She felt disturbed ; thinking of the gleaming Karl with his polished manners and mannered poise , and of how once he had been a boy . |
| 5 | Whereas formerly he had been the subject of history , taking pride of place in God 's historical scheme from creation onwards , now ‘ the human being no longer has any history : or rather , since he speaks , works , and lives , he finds himself interwoven in his own being with histories that are neither subordinate to him nor homogeneous with him ’ ( 368 — 9 ) . |
| 6 | Well he has been a bit |
| 7 | Well he 's been no trouble at all . |
| 8 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 9 | Presumably he had been a football fan but it has not been possible to discover whether he supported Liverpool or Everton . |
| 10 | What had Luke Hunter meant — if indeed he had been the sender ? |
| 11 | He had been a soldier for almost all his life , but of late he had been a farmer in Normandy , drawn to the land of his enemies by a woman met by chance in the chaos of peace . |