Example sentences of "[subord] he have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 's a man who erm is qualified in the field of computer sciences and if your Lordship will hear has worked throughout his life in the fields of computers , banking and er in March of nineteen eighty five he left employment with a company known as Data Logic Limited where he had been employed as a banking consultant and decided at that stage er on a change of career erm and he was looking principally to acquire a wine bar , restaurant , country house hotel , something of that nature and er you will hear that after some early disappointments in the earlier part of nineteen eighty five when deals that er were on the horizon for premises in Oxfordshire and then in Chichester erm in early September the plaintiffs er saw and liked the wine bar in and offered the price of , the asking price of seventy five thousand pounds with stock er which was accepted . |
| 2 | On April 18 Ershad had been moved to Dhaka central prison from the Gulsham villa where he had been detained since his arrest in December 1990 . |
| 3 | Patsy turned to them , unmarked except for where he had been stained by his brother 's blood . |
| 4 | All round his dingy housing-association flat in Stoke Newington , close to Amhurst Road , where he had been arrested at the beginning of the 1970s , were the signs of the new affluence . |
| 5 | Thomson 's experiences abroad , where he had been confronted with every type of poverty and degradation , had nurtured his already strong humanitarian streak . |
| 6 | Hickson alleged that while in the police station where he had been taken by P.C. Torney on a charge of having stolen 10&shilling from the pocket of his clothes in a cubicle at the Corporation Swimming Baths , the constable gave him a violent blow to the eye , and followed this up by two blows to the body … he was subsequently acquitted on this charge . |
| 7 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 8 | Local press reports said that former President Traore had been hurriedly moved from the Kati barracks , where he had been held in detention . |
| 9 | He told how , after his condition deteriorated badly , his son had been taken into the intensive care unit where he had been put on a life support machine . |
| 10 | He arrived in Split by Sea King helicopter from aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal , stationed off the Croatian coast , where he had been welcomed by a 40-man Welsh male voice choir made up of crew members . |
| 11 | Other triangular trade centred on the East Indies , where he had been associated with the interloping of Sir William Courteen [ q.v. ] against the East India Company from the late 1630s . |
| 12 | I found him in the Grange garden , where he had been waiting for news all night . |
| 13 | No but I mean , I do n't mean wh I do n't mean where he 's been working for the corporation , I mean before when he 's had these various jobs and they 've finished and he 's had , you know , the job 's finished and they 've had to go somewhere . |
| 14 | Although he 'd been kept in secure accommodation 3 times in his life , he was now in a stable relationship with a new foster mother . |
| 15 | Perhaps they had more confidence in Mortimer as a commander than they ever had in Edward II : Mortimer held the lordship of Trim ( County Meath ) in right of his wife and although he had been defeated by Edward Bruce in Meath in December 1315 , he had shown some skill in restoring order in Ireland after the Bruce invasion . |
| 16 | Although he had been convicted on the king 's own record of his treason , a device used by Edward I against his Scottish enemies , many contemporaries thought that the judgement was of dubious legality . |
| 17 | Bakatin , although he had been dismissed by Gorbachev as Interior Minister in December 1990 as a result of conservative pressure , was seen as the Soviet President 's candidate whose role was to win enough votes to deny Yeltsin a first round victory . |
| 18 | Although he had been born in Wine Street , Bristol , his cloth-making ancestors had come from Wellington , and his grandfather had farmed in the remote Somerset hamlet of Rich 's Holford below the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills ; his eccentric uncle , John , was comfortably established in a ‘ most delightful villa ’ a mile from Taunton , and Bath had intermittently been Southey 's own home since childhood . |
| 19 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 20 | Although he had been nominated for the presidency by Civic Forum ( of which he was a founder member ) and PAV , it was understood that he would remain strictly neutral in the election campaign . |
| 21 | Although he had been nominated as a conservative by Protestant Unionists within the constituency , he had quickly become an O'Neill supporter . |
| 22 | Although he had been immersed for days in Ridley 's exotic tale , searching out the coiling roots of Coleridge 's Kubla Khan , and although he knew intellectually that so many of these stories and poems were impregnated with an unconscious symbolism which later adventures into the human psyche were to make so much more explicit , he was temperamentally incapable of seeing the hidden meaning within this laborious passing from the ‘ dungeon of lust ’ into the pellucidly clear air of the mountains of Tasgi where voices shouted in exultation . |
| 23 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 24 | Most of the population have welcomed Mr Mladenov 's reforms , although he has been criticised for leaving some of Mr Zhivkov 's supporters in prominent positions . |
| 25 | He spotted your sign , ’ Vitor said , with a nod towards it , ‘ so he 's been speaking to the locals and asking a few questions . ’ |
| 26 | He was to have joined me this week , but his train met with an accident , so he 's been detained for a few days with an injured ankle . |
| 27 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 28 | Similarly , Edward Woodville 's fleet posed a threat to Gloucester only as long as the duke 's own position was uncertain ; once he had been recognized as protector the matter could be dealt with . |
| 29 | It was not easy , even for a German captain , to intervene at this stage , but once he had been subjected to a long discussion and much persuasion , he contacted the SS in Tabiano and managed to have us set free . |
| 30 | The problem for the hon. Member for Dartford is that , once he has been defeated at the next election , he will be replaced as a candidate by the hon. Member for Stirling ( Mr. Forsyth ) . |