Example sentences of "[subord] he have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before joining had worked for for 33 years , where he had been a champion buttermaker . |
| 2 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 3 | He had been exposed as a secret police informer under the ousted communist regime , although he insisted that his activities had been confined to reporting on foreign visitors to Sofia 's Natural History Museum ( where he had been a department head ) and on his visits abroad for scientific research ; he categorically denied that he had ever informed on dissidents . |
| 4 | The Goldsmiths summoned him to London , but did not refer to his local supporters , appointing him on 7th August because of his excellent testimonials from the Master and Fellows of Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he had been a student . |
| 5 | He was newly come today from Eltham , the king 's favourite manor , where he had been a witness at his Majesty 's proxy marriage to the widowed Duchess Joan of Brittany . |
| 6 | Although he had been a member of both the US House of Representatives and the US Senate he had never been a true man of Congress . |
| 7 | It was Mr Deans 's first trip to an offshore installation , although he has been a seaman for a number of years . |
| 8 | He was taken aback , and more confused than he 'd been a moment ago . |
| 9 | You could not , no , a miner once he 's been a miner , can not go down er a pit and say to anyone down a pit , and say to anyone down a pit , that he 's not a miner . |
| 10 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 11 | What if he had been a vicar , a Methodist minister or a rabbi ? |
| 12 | Asked if he had been a child prodigy , he would answer : ‘ Yes I was — and I still am . ’ |
| 13 | Before the Dewhurst Stakes , you felt sorry for his opponents and if he had been a man coming into a room for the first time , the rest of us would have looked round anxiously to see our wives ' reaction . |
| 14 | The question was whether an employee who was going to suffer from a disability , and was then guilty of misconduct , would have been dismissed if he had been a man . |
| 15 | If he had been a drinking man he would have had a half pint in every establishment . |
| 16 | There was no doubt , however , that Mr Lee could have made the situation a little easier for himself , and his staff , if he had been a bit more open with the press . |
| 17 | The decision was that it was unlawful direct discrimination because Mr James had been treated differently than if he had been a woman . |
| 18 | Upon his return to Saragossa , El Cid was treated as a hero in exactly the same way as if he had been a Moslem . |
| 19 | If he had been a painter at that time , he would not have produced a picture like Beaumont 's storm scene ( 'different from this ' — this picture , line 18 ) ; he would have reproduced the tranquillity and the smiling sea , and added ‘ the light that never was ’ — the Poet 's illusions . |
| 20 | Down in the hold he 'd cracked his shins on the bumper of a small green car and she 'd laughed at his face and kissed him as if he 'd been a kid and for a moment he was thirteen and being hugged by Dave 's big sister , who was certainly large and confusing to thirteen year olds . |
| 21 | He moved incredibly slowly , zombie-ish , as if he 'd been a patient in there since before the flood and they 'd finally decided to let him out for some fresh air . |
| 22 | I contacted him because he had been a friend of the novelist and playwright , Patrick Hamilton , about whom I am writing a book . |
| 23 | By pre-arrangement the debate was limited to foreign and defence matters , which Mr Ford considered his strong suit because he had been a congressman and a vice-president while his opponent , Jimmy Carter , had been a mere governor of Georgia and a peanut farmer . |
| 24 | Now that the Colonello had been taken away , the only Italian from the camp who remained was one of the two interpreters , Capitano Camino , who had an excellent command of English because he had been a businessman in England before the war . |
| 25 | Because he 'd been a graduate entrant , accelerated promotion had been guaranteed . |
| 26 | ‘ Because he 'd been a novice monk himself once , in Ireland , before he went to Oxford . |
| 27 | Should Kernaghan be ruled out of the final seven matches it will be a blow , because he has been a tower of strength and a model of consistency . |
| 28 | Part of his motive in undertaking to edit the Criterion had been to establish his own position within metropolitan culture and , since he had been a bank employee when he had begun the paper seventeen years before , in this he had triumphantly succeeded . |
| 29 | Charlie rarely saw his own father when he 'd been a patient and sad character living with his mother . |
| 30 | For Courtney this was a return to Africa , for he had been a big-game hunter and had once canoed down the Nile from Lake Victoria . |