Example sentences of "he have [be] [prep] the [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 2 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 3 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 4 | He has been on the losing side in Cup semi-finals on five occasions , and if he finally makes it to Wembley this year he may look back on this bitter struggle as the crucial victory along the way . |
| 5 | Wade Dooley is by no means the only player who was apt to be more profitable under the old laws than he has been under the new . |
| 6 | The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties . |
| 7 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 8 | He 'd been at the wrong end when a small company went bust in the city . |
| 9 | Did n't Tumbleweed say he 'd been to the fair before ? |
| 10 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 11 | This was the first time that he had been past the big covered back porch of her house , and everything was new and interesting . |
| 12 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 13 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 14 | For many years , he had been on the local council . |
| 15 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 16 | He had been with the British troops at the liberation of Belsen . |
| 17 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 18 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 19 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 20 | He had been to the Top Rank entertainment centre in Reading when all the scientists had gathered one evening to formulate a demand for a 40 per cent pay rise . |
| 21 | He had been under the erroneous impression that Europe was just one big common market , similar in size to the United States , operating under free trade concepts , and with common laws , rules and regulations . |
| 22 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 23 | Still , however difficult he had been in the good days , when they were all riding high , he was still most certainly loyal . |
| 24 | He had been in the Little Chef restaurant in Bramley , near Rotherham , south Yorkshire , on Wednesday night , when a man suddenly pulled out a double- barrelled shotgun . |
| 25 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |
| 26 | Paul Bodin says he 's been lucky … he 's been in the right place at the right time and has managed to take the chances … |
| 27 | He 's been in the popular resort area Goa for thirteen months charged with possessing cannabis … |
| 28 | " If he 's been in the tidal river , would n't the water be tidal water anyway ? " |
| 29 | First there 's Gary Harris … four seasons in a row he 's been in the English boys team … |
| 30 | one man who 's been losing pounds to go on the rally is Ade Jeffries from Gloucester … for the past two months he 's been in the local gym geting fit … he 's lost nearly two stone … |