Example sentences of "he have been [verb] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It seems that he has been using the free post to send out quantities — I do not know how many — of his so-called ’ Annual Report ’ . |
| 2 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 3 | He has been searching the dark realm , a moving shadow flowing through the looping Interiors ; dark , dimlit , floodlit . |
| 4 | Mr Beacham said he has been pressing the British Legion to put Stephen 's name on the role of honour . |
| 5 | It will be Lt Col Stewart 's first public appearance since it was announced that he has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his courage and leadership during his tour of duty in Bosnia . |
| 6 | It will be Lt Col Stewart 's first public appearance since it was announced that he has been awarded the Distinguished Service Order for his courage and leadership during his tour of duty in Bosnia . |
| 7 | Under the Social Security Act 1971 , a man is liable to maintain his wife and children , including those of whom he has been adjudged the putative father , and a woman is liable to maintain her husband and children . |
| 8 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 9 | At the direction of his lance master , he had been patrolling the ancient forest of Haling Heart , south of Scaraby , for three seasons and had found no quests with which to occupy himself , never mind accrue funds for the order . |
| 10 | His case was that he had been using the public lavatory for proper purposes when the the police burst into his cubicle and arrested him , and that he had had no contact of any kind with the co-defendant . |
| 11 | He had been taught the hard lesson that you eat where there is food , because food is sustenance and without it there is failure and collapse . |
| 12 | ‘ Hello , love , ’ said her father , coming in from the kitchen where he had been shelling the succulent fresh prawns that would form part of a cold seafood and salad lunch , before the hot turkey dinner this evening . |
| 13 | But as he grew older , and felt the signs of decay in his mortal body , he rejoiced to think that his inner man was being renewed every day , until he should attain that ‘ being at home with the Lord ’ to which his whole Christian life was directed and of which he had been given the Holy Spirit as a guarantee ( 2 Cor. 4 : 16f , 5:1ff , 5,8 ) . |
| 14 | Like his brothers Richard agreed to accept rather less than he had been offered the previous autumn : half the revenues of Aquitaine , but this time only two residences , and apparently unfortified ones . |
| 15 | He had been sensing the red death for many days . |
| 16 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 17 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m new mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 18 | A former union official at the steelworks claimed he had been told the Chinese workers would be brought in to dismantle the £50m mill , built in 1979 to process Brymbo 's steel . |
| 19 | He had been following the narrow forest path downhill for some leagues , the trees soaring ever taller overhead , so that the sunlight came down in muted bars between the leaves . |
| 20 | From greeting her with a kiss at breakfast , throughout the morning , and up to ten minutes ago when , at the lunch table , he had covered her hand with his , gazed into her eyes and called her meu amor , he had been playing the adoring fiancé to perfection . |
| 21 | ‘ He had been shown the yellow card and the referee had had a word with him and although he did n't like being substituted , I did it for his own good . |