Example sentences of "he have been [adv] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ After all , he is the champion and he has been in with some of the best fighters of the day . |
| 2 | Yeah cos if it was as bad as he said it was , I mean he would only stand up for one or two hours at a time , whereas he 'd been up since nine , he was still sitting up at one o'clock when I arrived there |
| 3 | He 'd been up since six trying to fix his motorbike . |
| 4 | I gathered that he 'd been around in some pretty exciting — oh , do you mean he might have made that up , too ? |
| 5 | He 'd been here for forty-odd years , so he was the chap behind me , if you like . |
| 6 | and he 'd been away for three months so that you know I mean |
| 7 | Something to do with what he 'd been through in some war . |
| 8 | He 'd had himself painted and sculptured again and again , and he 'd been there for all the world to see . |
| 9 | He 'd been there for some time . |
| 10 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 11 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 12 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 13 | When I was eventually connected with my Commander-in-Chief I was to learn that this was the first night he had been abed in 13 consecutive nights of operations . |
| 14 | In later years , Roderick confided that he had been far from happy with the title , for the book certainly was not " elementary " . |
| 15 | It was a place he rarely went , and now he had been twice in twenty-four hours ; last night with Benny , and tonight because he was so late and fussed getting back from his useless journey to Dublin . |
| 16 | ‘ He had been there for two nights , sinking deeper and deeper , ’ but the troops , obsessed by their own suffering , passed by without so much as casting a glance at the wretched beast . |
| 17 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 18 | Jackie said he 's been up for seven o'clock . |
| 19 | Even though he 's been up since six at his job in the City and is absolutely starving , the Hooray must wait until 10.30pm and then ‘ gair-airt-dinner ’ or ‘ gair-fair-n-Indi ’ . |
| 20 | The strain he 's been under with one thing and another . |
| 21 | ‘ He 's been back for two days . ’ |
| 22 | He 's been out for some time . |