Example sentences of "he have [adv] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 At 26 he has already been at eight clubs , and if Howard Wilkinson could n't stop his itchy feet people will ask , what chance have we got ?
2 Also Parker confesses that he has never been to one of Elvis ' recording sessions : ‘ That 's his job — mine 's getting him as much money as I can . ’
3 He has always been like that , even when he was quite small . ’
4 He has always been like this .
5 And er I remember one one chap he were a bit scared , very much so , and oh dear dear dear , he 'd only been within other bloke , a chap A chap from , what was his name now ?
6 He 'd only been in eighteen months , ’ said the Bishop , in the manner of a man who is used to a longer temporal perspective .
7 At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months .
8 Mind you , he 'd never been in good health , not since they sent him home from France . ’
9 He had evidently been through all this before .
10 Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth .
11 He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups .
12 Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember .
13 One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight .
14 Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs .
15 Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one .
16 He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right .
17 Closer to home , he 's also been to eight European cities since the election .
18 Well he 's also been on hundreds of committees because they were sort of one of the early ones to be done
19 He 's not been like that for a long time . ’
20 ‘ It 's the only place he 's ever been outside this country .
21 And he 's always been like that .
22 ‘ He is a strain — but it 's not what I have to do for him — it 's the way he is — he 's always been like that . ’
23 He 's always been like that and he has n't changed .
24 He 's always been like that .
25 But he 's always been like that with them kids you know yourself if they do anything it 's got ta be done
26 He 's never been to National Tyres .
27 He 's never been like this .
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