Example sentences of "he have [been] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been in a persistent vegetative state at Airedale General Hospital near Keighley , Yorkshire , ever since . |
| 2 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
| 3 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 4 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 5 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 6 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 7 | He had been for a second interview last Tuesday morning and had a nail biting few days till all was confirmed on Friday last for a start yesterday , 22nd March . |
| 8 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 9 | If he had been in a sorry state , if he had needed anything , then she could have helped him , perhaps eventually told him . |
| 10 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 11 | To find a job he had to hide the fact that he had been in a mental hospital . |
| 12 | He had been in a persistent vegetative state since being crushed in the Hillsborough disaster on April 15 , 1989 . |
| 13 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 14 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |
| 15 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 16 | And Sam Spiro — he had been like a lost soul since his wife died . |
| 17 | Since leaving the army , he 's been on a constant round of lecture tours . |
| 18 | He 's a gem , always full of good humour , and he 's been on a few times , now , but this particular moment was when I noticed in the studio lights a glint of trouser zip . |
| 19 | Bloody film star he ought to be , not a and he you see him on the television , he 's been on a few times at night ! |
| 20 | They 've got two strikers that can cause problems have n't they , Colin Clarke , he 's been about a fair bit , and Guy Whittington had one really good chance where Ken Vasey made a very good save ? |
| 21 | Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III . |
| 22 | He 's been in a foul temper all day . |
| 23 | He 's been in a few things . |
| 24 | Yeah well two of mine did go in , one 's gone out into the fire service and the other one has stayed in and he 's got , he , he 's been doing very well , he 's been in a big big comprehensive school up in Runcorn , and then he 's been seconded to Cheshire County to the advisory service for a couple of years and so , hello ! |
| 25 | ‘ He 's been in a bad mood all day , ’ I said . |