Example sentences of "he have [adv] been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has just been pulverized by a being from the other side of the galaxy and what does he do ? |
| 2 | Ivan Capelli claims he has n't been paid by March F1 since May 1991 . |
| 3 | He has since been sacked by Nalgo and has debts of £10,000 . |
| 4 | He has since been praised by managers at his new job with Smith 's Dry Cleaners for his honesty . |
| 5 | Reserve Winners Dog The dog who came second in the Winners Dog 's original class competes with the dogs remaining in the ring , ( unless he has already been defeated by one of them ) , for Reserve Winners . |
| 6 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 7 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 8 | ‘ He has clearly been damaged by it . |
| 9 | Miller insists he has never been motivated by money , and his days at Love Street were probably numbered from the time St Mirren allowed his then assistant , Drew Jarvie , to leave the club and join Dundee . |
| 10 | He has long been regarded by the trade as one of the top sporting gun men in the business , with years of experience behind him . |
| 11 | Let us imagine , as the first dawning of objective thought , a child wanting another helping at dinner , remembering what it is like to be sick , and telling himself what he has often been told by his mother , ‘ Do n't , or you 'll be ill ’ . |
| 12 | From his demeanour , fierce and uncompromising , I knew he 'd already been denounced by Martinho . |
| 13 | Supported by the local community , he had probably been selected by them , for his appointment by the Company included a note that he had been teaching since Michaelmas 1533 . |
| 14 | He had also been struck by a streak of ruthlessness in the boy which , he thought , ought not to have surprised him since he knew that , as with all good detectives , it must be present . |
| 15 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 16 | Williams , certain that he had not been detected by Tawell , returned to his office , confident that Tawell had retired for the night . |
| 17 | Ukraine appointed Rear-Adml Boris Kozhin , previously commander of the Crimean naval base , as head of all naval forces in the republic , even though he had just been sacked by Adml Igor Kasatonov , the CIS 's Commander of the Black Sea Fleet , for ‘ inflaming national strife ’ . |
| 18 | Hodder has published Lord Archer since Kane and Abel in 1979 — he had previously been published by Cape — and has all his fiction in print in Coronet paperback ; contrary to rumour , Coronet retains this backlist . |
| 19 | Wilson , of Low Moor , Darlington , told the court he had previously been told by police that the knife was not an offensive weapon . |
| 20 | He had already been spotted by Mrs Miller . |
| 21 | He would never have let her go if he had n't been distracted by his own interests . |
| 22 | If Simon had n't had other things on his mind — if he had n't been distracted by you — ’ the word burst from him with a violence which made her recoil ‘ — he would never have made that fatal error . ’ |
| 23 | He had n't been hurt by it , probably not even insulted , but it had made him angry . |
| 24 | As a delinquent nine-year-old at his prep school , he had once been required by the headmaster to write out in his best handwriting the whole of the third chapter of Ecclesiastes , old Gumboil , economical in this as in all matters , believing that writing lines should combine punishment with literary and religious education . |
| 25 | He had always been taught by women , with the exception of Mr Dixon , and ignored by his parents . |
| 26 | Willie stood stunned for a moment for he had never been praised by anyone ever . |
| 27 | As always , he did not think the lectures successful although he had tried to avoid all social engagements in February when he was working on them , he had still been distracted by rehearsals for The Family Reunion . |
| 28 | He had apparently been adopted by a wealthy industrialist . |
| 29 | He had long been disturbed by the growing diversification of the Club 's interests . |
| 30 | While she felt he should be honest with his colleagues , she could understand a reluctance to have stories about how his ne'er-do-well father had walked out before his birth and he had subsequently been neglected by his mother appear in the Press . |