Example sentences of "he have been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 2 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 3 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 4 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 5 | He has been stonewalling throughout the whole month since Lamb told the world , through the Daily Mirror , how the Pakistanis scuff and scrape and scoop at an old ball until it swings as though it was factory fresh . |
| 6 | When you tell Oreste that he has been blessed with a brother I beg you to remind him that he is his mother 's first-born and as such has pride of place in her heart . |
| 7 | With each passing second he is becoming more painfully conscious of quite how far he has been dragged from the track of normal professional propriety . |
| 8 | The passivity of the wronged girl is a trait she shares with the hero of Guy Newell 's Fox Farm ( 1922 ) , a sensitive farmer abandoned by his go-getting wife after he has been blinded in an explosion . |
| 9 | A decent man doing a difficult job with players who are light years away from being the world 's best , he has been treated for the last week like a cross between a child molester and a Nazi war criminal . |
| 10 | Beware if a potential leader comes in with dissatisfaction at how he has been treated in a previous group . |
| 11 | If the NRPB gets the contract to conduct the survey , Reissland wants to compare death rates among servicemen and scientists present during the tests with records of their individual exposure to radiation — as recorded by the film badges which , he has been assured by the MoD , all those present wore . |
| 12 | But when he has been exposed as a liar and a traitor , left alone on stage , Shakespeare allows him to end the scene with a soliloquy in verse : . |
| 13 | The fact is that he has been saved from a disaster primarily caused by his ill-judged decision , based on terrible advice , to join the mechanism . |
| 14 | The merest mention of the word ‘ sex ’ is more than sufficient for Old Cyclops to start straining against the trousers before jumping to attention as if he has been plugged into a battery-charger . |
| 15 | Misery And there is no sign that the Scottish star 's misery will ease , as he has been named in a third-team line-up to face Manchester City this weekend . |
| 16 | Although his jarred shoulder is improving , and he has been named in the side for Saturday , he is still only given a 50–50 chance of playing . |
| 17 | The German academics very prudently ignored him for forty years ; but lately , to the disgrace of Germany , he has been discovered by an English critic . |
| 18 | ‘ He has been calling for a … ’ he glanced importantly at his notebook ‘ … |
| 19 | He has been wanted by a string of clubs , including Manchester United , who last season saw Pearce as the final piece in a title jigsaw . |
| 20 | He has been seen by the police surgeon who certified him fit to be detained . |
| 21 | Since then he has been seen by the right-wing as Maggie 's prince-in-waiting , but his skill has been that he has remained very much in favour with the Major Government where his ability and amiability won him respect . |
| 22 | KENNETH Clarke appears to have dropped out of the smart betting for the succession to Mrs T , no doubt because he has been landed with the mucky end of the Cabinet stick . |
| 23 | The vicar calls for silence for the ‘ Lord Mayor ’ , who makes a short speech declaring he has been elected for a year and a day . |
| 24 | He has been replaced in the squad for the Test , beginning in Melbourne on Boxing Day , by Shane Warne , while left-arm paceman Bruce Reid was not considered because of a shoulder injury . |
| 25 | He has been swimming in a pool somewhere , I said to myself . |
| 26 | He has been goaded by the obstacles to expansion and the punishing VAT rate of 18.6 per cent that is imposed on imports in his own country . |
| 27 | One BGS officer is in post and he has been supported by a consultant editor . |
| 28 | Recently , he confesses , he has been plagued by a recurring dream in which all these Hollywood types he barely knows are asking to borrow his toothbrush . |
| 29 | I spose he has been fading towards the end of matches , but then again — who has nt ? |
| 30 | ( d ) Warnings Section 2(4) ( a ) states : Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he has been warned by the occupier , the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability , unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |