Example sentences of "the [noun sg] he have be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The last time Willie had had so many children at the cottage he had been sick . |
| 2 | Adeane was also unhappy about his association with Operation Raleigh , an ambitious round-the-world sailing venture , the second he had been involved with , run by the explorer John Blashford-Snell . |
| 3 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 4 | In the dim light of the evening he had been magnificent . |
| 5 | Before the race he had been tense , after it his fury had seemed spontaneous and genuine . |
| 6 | Timothy Harris admitted to the court he had been jealous of the pretty teenager 's friendship with other young men and he was desperate to have sex with her . |
| 7 | A third guard in the van , Anthony Edwards , told the court he 'd been petrified he might be shot . |
| 8 | This is remarkable , given how little evidence he really had for his theory and how much of the evidence he had was wrong ! |
| 9 | From the outset he had been dismayed to learn how little they 'd progressed . |
| 10 | During his time in the Army he had been exemplary as far as conduct in battle and general discipline were concerned , but he would not have been as traditional a British soldier as he was if he had n't stretched a principle or two during life in barracks . |
| 11 | Morals and Manners in Islam was the only book on the subject he had been able to find in Wimbledon public Library . |
| 12 | Mostly , the furniture he has been concerned with up to now is the dining table . |
| 13 | Land in the more rural parts of the constituency is virtually covered with placards urging voters to support Mr Bates and since the by-election he has been involved in setting up a forum for local farmers to air their views . |
| 14 | Mark Clayton 's cooking has progressed in the year he has been head chef at Eastwell Manor , near Ashford , Kent . |
| 15 | Not that he could ever have afforded to buy those kind of designer clothes on his meagre wage but with the money he had received to throw the American and his beautiful assistant , or rather partner , off the scent he had been able to splash out for once in his life . |
| 16 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |