Example sentences of "that he have been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He said that he 'd been there three weeks . |
| 2 | Afterwards he admitted that he had been favourably impressed with Old Savill 's , except that the women were too grandly dressed . |
| 3 | There was a whole level of things here that he had been totally unaware of . |
| 4 | The insurance company did not pay out because he had failed to mention when renewing his policy that he had been seriously ill . |
| 5 | Stephanie said that he had been seriously ill and was convalescing . |
| 6 | He was the first to admit that he had been psychologically screwed-up when he joined them after eleven years with the elite American anti-terrorist squad , Delta — a state of mind that had come about as a result of his last Delta mission . |
| 7 | You know that , ’ she replied , and discovered that Travis , more interested in his love-life than hers , wanted to talk about Rosemary and how much he missed seeing her and the fact that he had been so lonesome for her that he 'd phoned her flat several times yesterday evening and , receiving no reply , had realised she must still be at her parents ' home . |
| 8 | He did n't tell her that he had been so worried about her that it had been hard to concentrate on sharing the hurt with Marcus , on blocking out the punishment–hey put him through . |
| 9 | Was n't it enough that he had been so humiliated ? |
| 10 | Finally assured that he had been truly alive , he died . |
| 11 | The students wondered if something had offended him , but later understood that he had been very depressed and had been still further depressed by the sight of everyone 's work . |
| 12 | You would n't have heard of him , of course , but I used to read his articles to Daddy at one time , and I remember seeing in the papers that he had been very ill . |
| 13 | His brother said that he had been more excitable lately , and more ineffective , and running up and down more . |
| 14 | The tentative diagnosis was that he had been too close to Daine 's fantasies and been subsumed into the structure of the Dream . |
| 15 | Vernon Tomes was on May 12 dismissed as Deputy Bailiff — Jersey 's second most senior judge — on the grounds that he had been too slow in delivering legal judgments . |
| 16 | Yes , here was Hatton 's entry that he had been too ill to start the return journey until noon . |
| 17 | Rod himself admits that he 's been very close to arrest . |
| 18 | Not to mention the fact that he has been conspicuously faithless to me . |
| 19 | ’ N'Grabbit depressed a button on the unit she held in her hand and a new graphic merged with the first ‘ … you can see that he has been somewhat over-confident in his predictions . |
| 20 | Philip is ironic also about his tendency to think in terms of ‘ higher ’ literature , and he discredits the validity of a quotation from Eliot , when it comes into his mind , simply on the grounds that he has been too corrupted by contemporary culture for anything that occurs to him spontaneously to have lasting value : |
| 21 | Hussey denies the charge that he has been too much of a ‘ hands-on ’ chairman . |