Example sentences of "he have [been] [verb] from [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was also perfectly timed , for only last week Hendry was overtaken by Jimmy White at the head of the provisional world rankings — the first time since May 1990 that he has been removed from top spot . |
| 2 | He has been promoted from stand-by reserve for Friday 's first Test against Australia at Oxford after Belle Vue captain Joe Screen withdrew because of club commitments . |
| 3 | He has been suffering from gastric flu . |
| 4 | He does not disguise his feelings ; he has been expelled from four schools for not conforming or working hard enough . |
| 5 | There is a story that Old Dobbin , even after he had been retired from active fire service , would still , by force of habit and for the excitement of it , try to get out of his stable to find his place between the fire-engine shafts whenever the alarm rang . |
| 6 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 7 | He had been selected from hundreds of applicants with stars in their eyes by producer Harry Adair , and was due to appear at the Broadcasting House auditions on Saturday . |
| 8 | He had been promoted from general secretary to " president " of the LPRP at the party 's fifth congress the previous April [ see p. 38150 ] . |
| 9 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 10 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 11 | The strain of trying to do everything himself was taking a toll ; after one almost incoherent letter he explained that he had been working from 8 a.m. until midnight , had not eaten and so ‘ was thoroughly depressed and vague ’ . |