Example sentences of "he have been [vb pp] [adv] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Many people say that near Frankenhausen in Thuringia is a mountain in which Frederick Barbarossa may be found … he has been seen there many times . |
| 2 | Erm and that was just an excu h him being expelled for driving someone into town was simply an excuse because he 'd been caught so many other times . |
| 3 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 4 | He had been given so many things to digest , not the least that it was possible Celia might have a father still living . |
| 5 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 6 | He had been hurt so much by life that he had to laugh at it and there was not a trace of bitterness in him . |
| 7 | He thought he was covered to drive another vehicle , and said he had been told as much on the telephone by his insurers . |
| 8 | He had been told very little , and even that he had difficulty in remembering because he was so filled with excitement and anticipation . |
| 9 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 10 | He 's been sat there all day like a stuffed dummy , then he suddenly comes to life , grabs the dinner and runs off with it trailing between his legs , tripping and stumbling over it in his anxiety to have it all to himself . |