Example sentences of "he has [been] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 2 | In essence , B's claim can be characterised as asserting that he has been denied the right to a fair criminal trial . |
| 3 | He has been watching a number of wingers in the last three months in a bid to add some firepower to his team , who have scored only 31 goals in 31 League games this season . |
| 4 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 5 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 6 | ( He has been addressing the problem rather more seriously since his wife succumbed after breakfast on her way down the gangplank . ) |
| 7 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 8 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 9 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 10 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 11 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |
| 12 | ‘ No , but now you come to mention it , he has been coughing a bit . ’ |
| 13 | This entitles him to refuse to hand them over until he has been repaid the money repayable to him . |
| 14 | But Reid , who is also considering giving brilliant youngster Gary Flitcroft his full debut , stressed : ‘ There is no problem with Steve even though he was substituted on Saturday — to be fair to him he has been fighting a toe injury . ’ |
| 15 | Evidence abounds that he has been approaching the top of his game for the event , following up his second place in the Tournament Players ' Championship , in Florida recently , with a sixth at New Orleans on Sunday . |
| 16 | He has been studying the development of Aplysia from its tiny , free-swimming larval form through a series of intermediate stages to its adulthood , and in particular has mapped the development of the animal 's nervous system and of its behaviour . |
| 17 | ‘ He has been offered a player/coach position at Exeter City and that 's obviously interesting him but I will be getting in touch with him before I go on holiday to see what he 's doing . |
| 18 | Most Saturdays , assuming he has been working the night before , Young is up by 10 am for breakfast with his wife and three children : two teenage boys and Hannah Harley , four , named after his beloved motorbike . |
| 19 | He 's won dozens of gold , silver and bronze medals as a distance runner … more recently he has been awarded the MBE in the New Year 's honours list … and now he will be due for at least a service medal , at the end of the Gulf War . |
| 20 | ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … . |
| 21 | Fortified by the support of gleeful Tories and powerful connections ( his brother-in-law is Health Secretary William Waldegrave ; his wife is lady-in-waiting to the Queen ) , he has been cracking the whip . |
| 22 | He has been examining a number of options including staging both on Tuesday September 21 . |
| 23 | Laughton is in the hottest of hot-seats in Rugby League but at least he has been spared the indignity of the bookies taking bets on his possible successor , as has happened to Souness . |
| 24 | The clerk to the council , Mr Harry Whitehouse , received several letters from residents complaining about dogs fouling the green and nearby private gardens and he has been told the dog warden will be sent more regularly . |
| 25 | Mr. Speaker , Sir , ever since this Minister filled his predecessor 's boots , he has been talking a load of rubbish . |
| 26 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |