Example sentences of "he have [been] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been under a lot of pressure and he came out and played superbly . ’ |
| 2 | Since he was pulled from under a pile of 40 bodies over three years ago he has been in a coma , unlikely ever to recover . |
| 3 | She said : ‘ He has been in a lot of pain and this just puts the lid on it . |
| 4 | He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’ |
| 5 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 6 | And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time . |
| 7 | Said he 'd been to a party . |
| 8 | He may well be a transvestite , but I ca n't help wondering whether the make-up was simply a blind to ‘ Prove ’ , as it were , that he 'd been to a party that night , in case anyone picked him up . |
| 9 | He spent money that he had n't got and twice he 'd been in a duel . |
| 10 | On the night of the fire , he 'd been in a pub with Smith and Winter . |
| 11 | He felt as if he 'd been inside a cell ever since his arrest , imprisoned within his own mind . |
| 12 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 13 | His clothes suggested that he had been at a party and was anxious to get back to it . |
| 14 | ‘ He had been on a weekend retreat and said he wanted to get rid of the urges within him . ’ |
| 15 | The man said that he had been with a woman . |
| 16 | He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers . |
| 17 | Lately , he had been of a mind to trace his son Arnold Thomas , but until such a day as he might be fortunate in that respect , he had no one except the lily-livered David . |
| 18 | He had been in a pub in Hammersmith when a hypnotist jumped on to a low podium and put on a show . |
| 19 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |
| 20 | Wheat and barley he knew , and once he had been in a field of turnips . |
| 21 | Auguste broke off , none too pleased to be interrupted on a mere matter of murder when he had been in a world of his own , exalted by the power of cuisine . |
| 22 | He said that he had been in a corner of the bar talking to the landlord and friends during the time that the incident took place . |
| 23 | A vagrant was discovered yesterday in Linz , the skin on his face and hands severely burnt almost as though he had been in a fire . |
| 24 | He remembered other times when he had been in a plane at night with his wife and daughter . |
| 25 | Alexander Dubcek was re-elected chairman , although he had been in a coma since mid-September following a serious car accident . |
| 26 | THE polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes said yesterday he had been within a week of death when he finally agreed to ‘ be sensible ’ and abandon his Antarctic expedition . |
| 27 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 28 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 29 | But he is too smart to say it : he 's been on a Racism Awareness course . |
| 30 | then also er a talk with the dep about what he 's gon na say , and I 'm gon na put at the beginning please do not refer to this as being prepared for you , that 's two times he 's been to a launch and said that and he do n't give it such a spontaneous thing , so er I did meet him and tell him |