Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Now he has been given a new show by Granada TV . |
2 | But now he has been given a new lease of life after securing a sports bursary at Stirling University . |
3 | Even at the time of his admission and immediately prior to surgery when he has been given a great deal of information , his overriding concern is how he will cope with a stoma and whether he will be able to manage at home . |
4 | Taylor pointed out one of the things about great players who are given freedom is that they work very hard , and Gascoigne is prepared to do that , even in the knowledge that he has been given a special licence . |
5 | In his letter of resignation to the party leader , Mr Rezsoe Nyers , with whom he has been waging a long-running feud , Mr Nemeth stated he had no option but to resign . |
6 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
7 | I could have told him that he has been elected an honorary member of the Academy Club drinking school run by Oofy Prosser and Stephen Hargrave , in recognition of his services to literature . |
8 | A witness can not be asked in examination-in-chief about any previous statement made out of court which is inconsistent with his testimony unless he has been declared a hostile witness by the court . |
9 | The House will be grateful to the right hon. Gentleman , because he has been making a clear statement and drawing a clear distinction between the two sides of the House . |
10 | This week in Georgia he has been keeping a low profile , wrapped up in his own game plan , which is how he best enjoys life , it seems . |
11 | ‘ He has been having a good rest , and by the time the middle of next month comes round when the big money tournaments start , he wo n't be knackered like some of the others . |
12 | He has been offered a full-time contract for July and has accepted . ’ |
13 | Now we can reveal he has been offered a new deal worth an EXTRA 2,000 a week . |
14 | He will tell you he has been left a better player and a better person . |
15 | He has been promised an initial six-match run . |
16 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
17 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
18 | He 'd been lent an old relegated rod with two mottled bamboo sections and a greenheart tip , a plastic centre-pin reel and a yellowed quill float . |
19 | She guessed that Mike Booker would be calling curses down on her head because he 'd been hoping a one-two win at Estoril would clinch the constructors ' championship for Carlisle Flint , quite apart from putting Ace into an unbeatable lead . |
20 | He 'd been offered a second chance of salvation . |
21 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
22 | The approach he took was to develop a Virtual Processor — a 32-bit machine with 16 registers and support for standard data types and addressing modes , which did n't actually exist . |
23 | The approach he took was to develop a Virtual Processor — a 32-bit machine with 16 registers and support for standard data types and addressing modes , which did n't actually exist . |
24 | One of the first things he did was to activate a small probe , with which he scanned his surroundings . |
25 | This must have been in the two years between the autumn or summer of 1187 , when he left Paris , and September 1189 , by which time he had been created a cardinal deacon by his relative , Pope Clement III . |
26 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
27 | He had been receiving an extraordinary number of new birds from Elizabeth 's brothers , Stephen and Charles Coxen , who had emigrated to Australia some years before . |
28 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
29 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
30 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |