Example sentences of "he have been [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
Previous page Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 31 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 32 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
| 33 | At the end of his visit Hogg said that he had been assured by Lebanese leaders that all three British hostages in Lebanon were alive . |
| 34 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 35 | At the end of January 1916 he had been transferred in great secrecy from Douai to Jametz north of Verdun , to take part in the ‘ aerial barrage ’ . |
| 36 | From childhood he had been fascinated by natural history , and at Cambridge he decided on a career which would enable him to combine medical research with his interest in comparative biology . |
| 37 | Northumbrian Water offices have received telephone inquiries and Labour 's Stuart Bell said he had been contacted by numerous people claiming they were having to pay more . |
| 38 | A few days before he was killed , José Miguel Mérida Escobar had reported to the Office of the Human Rights Procurator that , since the findings of his report became publicly known , he had been followed by unidentified armed men . |
| 39 | Malcolm had been told to expect a prison sentence , but the judge took pity on him , saying that he had been provoked by racial abuse from drunken louts . |
| 40 | In 1910 , Tom Mann came back from Australia , where he had been engaged in political and trade union campaigning for the previous nine years . |
| 41 | Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective . |
| 42 | He had been painted in wonderful Afghan clothes , a tunic and turban of deep blue and red embroidered with gold , clothes he had brought back from the exploits during which he had found Charlotte , the fabulous exploits that had been Alexandra 's bedtime stories every night , every single night in childhood , haunting her sleep with nightmares of cruelty and savagery in wild , barbaric places . |
| 43 | The blinding headaches he had been experiencing in recent weeks were taking their toll , and he looked grey and drawn when he arrived home . |
| 44 | 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 . |
| 45 | His father-in-law , Alexander Grant , son of the 8th Laird of Glen Moriston , Invernesshire , had been Commodore of the small British naval fleet on the Canadian lakes and had served for 20 years on the Executive Council of Upper Canada , for which he had been rewarded with liberal grants of land in various parts of Canada . |
| 46 | All performed creditably and indeed Patel was such a revelation that onlookers must have wondered why he had been languishing in other teams for so much of the season . |
| 47 | A regional Communist Party leader before the 1989 revolution which overthrew his father , he had been sentenced to long prison sentences for murder ( later overturned ) and other crimes [ see pp. 37725 ; 38306 ] . |
| 48 | He was not prosecuted when he returned to England in 1919 and insisted that he had been employed by British Naval Intelligence . |
| 49 | He had been promoted from general secretary to " president " of the LPRP at the party 's fifth congress the previous April [ see p. 38150 ] . |
| 50 | I did n't realise that Dad was home early that afternoon because he had been put on short time and had had to take a drop in wages in consequence . |
| 51 | In addition , he had been put in sole charge of handling negotiations between Cadogan 's and one of the major American corporations . |
| 52 | The court heard Mr Ozberk had told immigration officials that in April he had been arrested by Turkish police seeking information about his brother , a member of an outlawed Kurdish independence organisation . |
| 53 | But the experts who examined him afterwards almost certainly thought he had been infected by female chiggoe fleas , which attach themselves between the toes or on the soles of the feet . |
| 54 | Despite all his dissembling about any new industry alliances over the past few months , Carlo de Benedetti told Ing C Olivetti & Co SpA 's annual meeting that he had been negotiating with Digital Equipment Corp , and revealed details of the alliance . |
| 55 | Mr Duff said he had been approached by Libyan lawyer Dr Ibrahim Legwell , whom he had met on August 4 in Edinburgh . |
| 56 | Fares Misrati claimed that he had been tortured by Egyptian security forces . |
| 57 | Constantly , he had been torn by contradictory forces . |
| 58 | His father Phillip , of Erndhura , Farnascullogue , Lisnaskea , said he had been told by other students that lifts frequently broke down and students often clambered out of them . |
| 59 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 60 | Prime Minister John Compton defended Fostin by saying that he had been subjected to unjustified attacks in the press over the poor state of the country 's roads . |