Example sentences of "he have been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From their article on the latter it is clear that Taskopruzade and Mecdi suppose him to have been located at the Zincirli medrese at Aksaray in Karaman at the time of Molla Fenari 's period of study with him . |
| 2 | Disappointment that Feargal was n't the man she had thought him had been replaced by a sadness for things not to be . |
| 3 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 4 | When the last goodbyes and blessings on him had been murmured by the ladies , two dimmed lanterns were provided by Mrs Prynn the housekeeper , and the priest was led down to the kitchens and into the stables , under the floor of which a tunnel led steeply down to the shore . |
| 5 | So powerful had these embattled minorities become , that decent chaps like him had been forced upon the defensive . |
| 6 | Several other infinitely more damaging conversations involving him have been taped over the past few weeks . |
| 7 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 8 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 9 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 10 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 11 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |
| 12 | When you tell Oreste that he has been blessed with a brother I beg you to remind him that he is his mother 's first-born and as such has pride of place in her heart . |
| 13 | With each passing second he is becoming more painfully conscious of quite how far he has been dragged from the track of normal professional propriety . |
| 14 | The passivity of the wronged girl is a trait she shares with the hero of Guy Newell 's Fox Farm ( 1922 ) , a sensitive farmer abandoned by his go-getting wife after he has been blinded in an explosion . |
| 15 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 16 | Beware if a potential leader comes in with dissatisfaction at how he has been treated in a previous group . |
| 17 | If the NRPB gets the contract to conduct the survey , Reissland wants to compare death rates among servicemen and scientists present during the tests with records of their individual exposure to radiation — as recorded by the film badges which , he has been assured by the MoD , all those present wore . |
| 18 | But when he has been exposed as a liar and a traitor , left alone on stage , Shakespeare allows him to end the scene with a soliloquy in verse : . |
| 19 | The fact is that he has been saved from a disaster primarily caused by his ill-judged decision , based on terrible advice , to join the mechanism . |
| 20 | The merest mention of the word ‘ sex ’ is more than sufficient for Old Cyclops to start straining against the trousers before jumping to attention as if he has been plugged into a battery-charger . |
| 21 | Misery And there is no sign that the Scottish star 's misery will ease , as he has been named in a third-team line-up to face Manchester City this weekend . |
| 22 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |
| 23 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 24 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 25 | He has been wanted by a string of clubs , including Manchester United , who last season saw Pearce as the final piece in a title jigsaw . |
| 26 | He has been seen by the police surgeon who certified him fit to be detained . |
| 27 | Since then he has been seen by the right-wing as Maggie 's prince-in-waiting , but his skill has been that he has remained very much in favour with the Major Government where his ability and amiability won him respect . |
| 28 | KENNETH Clarke appears to have dropped out of the smart betting for the succession to Mrs T , no doubt because he has been landed with the mucky end of the Cabinet stick . |
| 29 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 30 | He has been replaced in the squad for the Test , beginning in Melbourne on Boxing Day , by Shane Warne , while left-arm paceman Bruce Reid was not considered because of a shoulder injury . |