Example sentences of "[vb past] he have been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 I later interviewed the bemused recordist , and established he had been given two portable stereo tape recorders , which he had laid on the ground pointing in opposite directions .
2 He felt he had been upsetting one or two people and that the game would be easier to control without him around .
3 But he did miss it ; he thought he had been born homesick ; he certainly thought he had spent most of his life waiting and longing and aching for the Bright Palace where his mother 's people had quarrelled and laughed and made love and war , and where the charming ruthless Wolfkings had woven Ireland 's history .
4 Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale .
5 Although he said he 'd bought them from another dealer , the police proved he 'd been handling stolen goods .
6 He said he had been made redundant .
7 ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route everyday for the last ten years .
8 ‘ One guy we spoke to said he had been walking this route every day for the last ten years .
9 Terry McLaughlin , its deputy editor , said he had been shown sensitive and detailed files by a representative of the ‘ Inner Circle ’ .
10 Terry McLaughlin , its deputy editor , said he had been shown sensitive and detailed files , including ‘ top secret ’ material , by a representative of the ‘ Inner Circle ’ .
11 He said he 'd been feeling depressed .
12 So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it
13 Mackie denied he had been told that and said that if he had been told the meeting was confidential from the start there would have been little point in him , as an analyst , being there .
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