Example sentences of "that he have [adv] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Damn it , he had n't meant to betray that he 'd never been able to forget that afternoon , and the sweet innocence that had touched something very deep within him . |
| 2 | As soon as he confessed what he knew , fumbling the hideous admission as they came out of a rather good film about love that he had hardly been able to stand , she managed to make it seem that it was he , not she , who was the disturber of their lives . |
| 3 | For example , on one occasion a youth was caught urinating in the street late at might , and was very respectful and deferential when caught in the act , but , upon the policeman recalling that he had recently been one of a group which had shouted abuse at him , an act expected from gougers , he was arrested , and the incident was treated as a case of indecent exposure . |
| 4 | Thrush Green was sorry to hear that he had never been married , had been married unhappily and was now separated from his wife , had been happily married and lost his wife in childbirth , and ( disastrously ) still married , with a wife who would be coming to live with him at the corner house within a few days . |
| 5 | Count 1 alleged the obtaining of property by deception contrary to section 15(1) of the Theft Act 1968 , the particulars being that on or about 16 March 1988 the appellant dishonestly obtained from the Halifax Building Society a cheque for £150,000 by falsely representing ( a ) that his basic annual income was £90,000 , ( b ) that he had never been bankrupt and did not have any judgment or proceedings for debt outstanding and ( c ) that he did not have any bank or other loans or charge/credit card debts . |
| 6 | To which Robert replied that he had never been interested in photography . |
| 7 | His war record and the fact that he had never been able to catch him redhanded whilst poaching appealed to his old world code of honour . |
| 8 | He had taken the name of Varna from the name of the port from which he had sailed but he had lived his life in terror of deportation , a fear that had haunted him long after it had ceased to be a real threat , so that he had never been able to enjoy his son 's success , seeing it only as something which drew unwelcome attention to the Varna family . |
| 9 | Fred was a kind , considerate man , uncomplicated and loving in his way , but she regretted that he had never been able really to arouse her fully and take her to the height of passion . |
| 10 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |
| 11 | He said afterwards that he had always been confident ‘ because I was not guilty ’ . |
| 12 | The explanation given was that he had always been keen on guns . |
| 13 | Martin Fleischmann told me that he had always been puzzled by the behaviour of hydrogen in palladium . |
| 14 | Alexei knew that he had always been aware of her — they were not strangers by any means — but now he straightened and stared in open admiration . |
| 15 | He found it impossible to believe that he had ever been able to write a book or give a lecture , or advise a government . |
| 16 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 17 | Jacob , sharing in her delight , thought that he had perhaps been wrong to worry . |
| 18 | It was strange to think that he had once been young . |
| 19 | A shop manager who was beaten up and threatened with having his ears cut off is so badly traumatised that he 's still been unable to describe his ordeal to police . |
| 20 | And one of his main traits is that he 's never been slow to admit he 's made a mistake in the transfer market . |
| 21 | It 's one of the quirks of the system , one of the little perks of the job , that he has therefore been able to make erm a rather quick killing of three hundred and ten thousand five hundred and thirty five pounds . |
| 22 | Colin Wilson , however , may have been justified in remarking years later that he has never been angry about anything and Kingsley Amis has grown angry by growing conservative and old . |
| 23 | He says that he has never been afraid to put national and constituency issues ahead of the party when appropriate . |
| 24 | My hon. Friend the Member for Devon , North ( Mr. Speller ) began by drawing attention to the fact that he has always been generous in his praise of the constituency record of Jeremy Thorpe . |