Example sentences of "have been [verb] [prep] his [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shaun , five , has been locked in his own lonely world since he was 18months-old . |
| 2 | Shaun , five , has been locked in his own lonely world since he was 18months-old . |
| 3 | His guilt has been exposed by his own actions . |
| 4 | An elderly man has been attacked by his own dog . |
| 5 | Maybe Vinnie has been working on his own . |
| 6 | COMEDIAN Jim Davidson has been banned from his own home after his fourth wife Tracie took out a court injunction against him . |
| 7 | The first , that with so much burnt umber on his hands he looked as though he 'd been playing with his own shit . |
| 8 | That prayer might as well have been couched in his own patois . |
| 9 | It was held that since the buyer knew much more about Persia than the seller , he must have been relying on his own judgment as to whether the tractors were suitable for the Persian market . |
| 10 | Should n't have been left on his own , but that 's Rose Hilaire for you . |
| 11 | He also regains the reader 's admiration by the way in which he seems to have been humbled by his many ordeals . |
| 12 | ‘ The reader interprets the text as if it had been written in his own language , culture and time … . |
| 13 | But since he had been invited in his own right , he would go . |
| 14 | Alexandra grew even crosser as it became obvious that Matthew had been invited in his own right . |
| 15 | What outsiders did n't know was that Bowyer 's remarks had been based on his own fruitless attempts to sign a big name Catholic — Jim McFadden of Cliftonville . |
| 16 | There was nothing to spare unless he used the rupee that he had been given for his own food . |
| 17 | A man who had been living on his own committed suicide . |
| 18 | Remembering all the dinners he had eaten at the Dysons ' when he had been living on his own , Bob invited Morris back to his flat one evening so that Tessa could cook dinner for him in his turn . |
| 19 | Stanger also quite magnificently clawed down Proctor after he had been uncorked in his own 22 by the largely negative Neil Jenkins ( who had two goal-kicking failures ) , Rayer and Ricky Evans having capitalised on a Scottish attack short-circuiting . |
| 20 | Councillor Rosie was appalled that the paper was American , outlining aspects of child abuse , what to look for , and how to confirm suspicions ; it was also nearly ten years old , written by an ‘ expert ’ who had been discredited in his own country , and certainly did n't signify that the council was keeping itself up to date on matters of such importance . |
| 21 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |
| 22 | The government denied involvement in Toro 's activities but few observers believed that he had been acting on his own initiative . |
| 23 | When one views the subsequent history of Vietnam , and Indonesia , however , it does not seem extravagant to claim that Mountbatten could hardly have made as bad a job of it if he had been left to his own devices . |
| 24 | When she 'd gone to work for the Bradfords Paddy had been left on his own and it had got worse than a pigsty then . |
| 25 | His erstwhile subordinate had been raised to a position of considerable power now , and he would no doubt recall how little mercy he had been shown by his former Controller . |
| 26 | Should he have mentioned the strange symptoms and side-effects he had been observing in his own case ? |
| 27 | The following year Lawson requested reimbursement of this sum from Sir William , claiming that it had been paid from his own pocket ! |
| 28 | Toby , surprisingly , had been put in his own small room and I guessed that the power of the Press was already being wielded in his favour . |
| 29 | Instead he wore jeans , old ones that had been moulded into his own shape . |
| 30 | After he 's been kept on his own , the troop wo n't accept him back . ’ |