Example sentences of "he have been [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 2 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 3 | Vic Williams : a 28-year-old soldier in the British Army 's Royal Artillery , he has been sentenced to 14 months ' imprisonment for desertion and ‘ conduct prejudicial to good order and military discipline |
| 4 | He has been sentenced to two years in prison and given a five-year driving ban . |
| 5 | He was jailed for two and a half years , to run consecutive to his present term , which means he has been sentenced to 21 years since 1973 . |
| 6 | It was his first medal in the competition , which he has been entering for five years — his previous best placing was ninth in 1990 . |
| 7 | But Mr Krueger 's unorthodox manner ( by Texas standards ) does not bode well : he has been defeated in two previous races for the Senate , and was rumoured to have been chosen to fill the empty seat only after three previous choices had been rejected by special interests . |
| 8 | Jarrett , who has a personal best of 13.04 , has been summer training in Portugal and already this season he has been timed at 13.33 … if the NIAAF can arrange to bring Jackson along to Belfast , it will be another clash to savour . |
| 9 | Geraldine , who worked as accounts clerk at Yarmouth Marine Base left to accompany her RAF husband to Cyprus where he has been posted for three years . |
| 10 | He has been banned for six months after being sent off in the Royal Liver League final replay against Donegal . |
| 11 | He does not disguise his feelings ; he has been expelled from four schools for not conforming or working hard enough . |
| 12 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 13 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 15 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 16 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 17 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 18 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 19 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 20 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 21 | He had been born in one of the hideous concrete blocks of flats erected after the Great Patriotic War . |
| 22 | He had been born in 1829 , the year of Catholic Emancipation . |
| 23 | And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 . |
| 24 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 25 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 26 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 27 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 28 | He remained until 1978 president of the European Broadcasting Union , a post to which he had been elected in 1973 and which he greatly treasured . |
| 29 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 30 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |