Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Which is odd , since he has n't been doing any work for me . ’ |
| 2 | He has since been granted temporary leave to stay in Britain . |
| 3 | He has since been proved right by the discovery first of a statuette , then of an unfinished statue , which combine head and body . |
| 4 | He has already been booked four times this season and two more cautions will result in automatic suspension . |
| 5 | Dr Richard Scorgie , whose mother , Peggy , lives in Flora Avenue , is a consultant in geriatric medicine at Woodend Hospital in Aberdeen ; he has also been appointed associate unit general manager ( medical administration ) and vice-chairman of the unit management board . |
| 6 | Jones has a lovely service but he has not been looking good behind a struggling pack . |
| 7 | The objections to assessing whether the hearing would have made a difference are not confined to those expressed by Megarry J. A superior court in the context of review is not in a good position to calculate whether a hearing would have made a difference , and to do so could well leave the individual with the feeling that he has not been afforded any opportunity of controverting the public body 's view . |
| 8 | After he graduated from London 's Faculty of Astrological Studies , his star talents were spotted by veteran astrologer Patrick Walker and he has now been casting daily horoscopes for The Sun for over ten years . |
| 9 | I am told that he has now been adjudicated bankrupt for a second time . |
| 10 | He has recently been appointed Associate Director of the Royal National Theatre , while maintaining his work for Cheek by Jowl . |
| 11 | But in all these years he has certainly been spared those other , uninvited , distractions which sweep over our lives , a snowstorm of diversion and entertainment and half-understood knowledge . |
| 12 | He 'd just been made redundant , and none of the two of us are sleeping at night . |
| 13 | But Mike was hurting too much already from the blow that had split his nose ; he 'd never been hit that hard . |
| 14 | Thin , pale , intense , he had not been speaking many minutes before we were electrified by this man . |
| 15 | However , the following month the Dalai Lama met with United States President Bush in Washington , although on previous visits to the USA he had not been granted such a meeting ; China made a strong protest to the USA . |
| 16 | Chipenda had earlier resigned as election organizer for the MPLA [ see p. 38949 for his election to MPLA central committee and political bureau ] , saying that he had not been given sufficient funds for the campaign and citing a " lack of the necessary trust and openness " in the party . |
| 17 | The body had not been identified as Stavanger 's — though , when I came to think of it , there was no reason why it should be , because he had not been reported missing . |
| 18 | On appealing to yet another committee , the 14 cases on which he had not been found guilty were resurrected and his dismissal confirmed . |
| 19 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 20 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 21 | Surely he had n't been using that tone with her a moment ago ? |
| 22 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 23 | Yet he had n't been told this highly relevant fact . |
| 24 | But if , if he had n't been doing that |
| 25 | Well at least she 's , he had n't been doing enough work somehow ! |
| 26 | He had n't been paying much attention to what Throgmorton had been talking about on the way here , but he recalled his ears had caught the unpleasant words ‘ casting vote ’ , and ‘ your important role as president ’ . |
| 27 | She knew he had n't been paying any attention to the play . |
| 28 | He had clearly been sobbing fit to burst , but he was now past that . |
| 29 | He had reportedly been given personal details of Danish citizens abroad who had died and was thought to have used these to obtain false papers ; his source , a Copenhagen city official , had been arrested . |
| 30 | Yet he had never been assigned any lands from which he might maintain himself and his Queen in their proper estate . |