Example sentences of "he have be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Prior to his death , he had been planning a full-scale war with Scotland , calling upon his subjects to raise the revenues for the undertaking . |
| 32 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 33 | He had been keeping a wary eye on Jacques Devraux while he made another laborious copy of the revolutionary tract and he stopped writing to watch the Frenchman walk back to his own quarters . |
| 34 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 35 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |
| 36 | He had been carrying a small bag , which he dumped on the table , and she looked at it in disbelief . |
| 37 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 38 | Harry turned back to Sam , with whom he had been having a private conversation on a quite different subject . |
| 39 | When he turned it was obvious from his face that he had been having a long tussle with himself . |
| 40 | Since he had been going with her he had been having a great time . |
| 41 | At one minute it seemed that he had been having a fine old dream about Humans and banquets and the Frost Giantess frying on a spit . |
| 42 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 43 | IF he had been running a 100 metre sprint final , little Louis Stevens could n't have scampered any faster yesterday . |
| 44 | It was as if he had been running a high temperature or tripped out of his head on acid . |
| 45 | there 's better news for Oxfordshire 's young tennis champion Tim Henman he 's been given a wild card entry into the Challenger Trophy which starts tomorrow |
| 46 | He 's been gone a long time |
| 47 | he 's been doing a blue track sort of something |
| 48 | ‘ The Tandy shock will prove he 's prepared to use anyone to his own ends and that he 's been leading a double life . ’ |
| 49 | I do n't believe he 's been carrying a huge old-fashioned thing like that around ever since he left . |
| 50 | Do you know if Graham 's got that flat , he 's been offered a flat |
| 51 | For the past year , he 's been fighting a massive tumour in his chest with gruelling bouts of chemotherapy and painful lumbar punctures in hospital . |