Example sentences of "[subord] he have be [prep] the " in BNC.

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1 Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ?
2 Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary .
3 The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed .
4 John was not universally popular with his new colleagues any more than he had been at the Wells ; his ambition aroused suspicion , scorn , envy or fear in some , and his sense of fun ( including a rather observant line in mimicry ) left barbs in some of its victims .
5 He was happier than he had been during the seven bad years between 1976 and 1982 , still self-assured but now far more reasonable .
6 He was obviously even more angry with her than he had been during the contretemps with Terry .
7 Although in good spirits , Frank was even more withdrawn than he had been in the Pit .
8 Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus .
9 Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years .
10 Wade Dooley is by no means the only player who was apt to be more profitable under the old laws than he has been under the new .
11 ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably .
12 Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods .
13 Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him
14 When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition .
15 If he had been at the Sex of One … party , he must have driven down some time between the small hours-of the Sunday morning and when he rang Keith Battrick-Jones on the Monday morning .
16 The uncle of 12-year-old Adele Thompson — killed by a joyrider in Toxteth , Liverpool — hit out : ‘ He would n't have said it if he had been through the heartache we have suffered . ’
17 His hair was grey , and his face lined and brown as if he had been in the sun for a long time .
18 But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find .
19 So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open !
20 If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train …
21 However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range .
22 So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property .
23 Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him .
24 I wonder if he 's been to the doctors with it .
25 " If he 's been in the tidal river , would n't the water be tidal water anyway ? "
26 If he 's been in the area , they may know something . ’
27 Yes , cos he 's been on the gin and Martini .
28 His clothes were in more of a mess but just because he had been in the city longer .
29 Captain Allan Border said : ‘ Obviously I feel a bit sorry for Jonesy because he 's been in the side for a long time .
30 Chatam had not been seen in public since finishing fourth to Sibton Abbey in the Hennessy at Newbury in November , and Pipe said yesterday : ‘ It was a fine run considering he had been off the course for so long and he goes for the Gold Cup with every chance .
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