Example sentences of "he have been [adv] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The inclusion of the word " reasonably " gives the court a discretion which will be exercised in the tenant 's favour where for example he has made one or two late payments of rent , but not where he has been persistently in arrear throughout the term ( Bassett v Whiteley ( 1982 ) 54 P & CR 87 ) . |
| 2 | Since 1990 he has been either under house arrest or in jail . |
| 3 | He has been out of work for years . |
| 4 | Mr Badillo is a lawyer with a full-time private practice , not a local political activist ; and he has been out of office since 1978 . |
| 5 | He has been back to Wirral once since then , in 1988 . |
| 6 | The £700,000 striker missed the last two games with a badly bruised shoulder , but he has been back in training for the last couple of days and will have a late fitness check tonight . |
| 7 | He 'd been right about Mrs Aitken having gone to some trouble . |
| 8 | He 'd been right about Bryce . |
| 9 | When Conchis had said that he 'd been down on Moutsa the week before , it had been this one fact , the sweet womanish perfume , that had puzzled me . |
| 10 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
| 11 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 12 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 13 | He returned for his father 's funeral , the first time he 'd been back to Zimbala in seventeen years , and Jamel was able to persuade him to stay on as the new editor of the country 's leading daily newspaper , La Voix . |
| 14 | His body was cold-I think he 'd been there for hours . ’ |
| 15 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 16 | Rostov shook his head , concealing the knowledge that he had been briefly in danger of his life . |
| 17 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 18 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 19 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 20 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 21 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 22 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 23 | He had been apart from Irina on many occasions — too many — but a permanent separation was something he still had to get used to . |
| 24 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 25 | He had been across to New York with The Lady 's Not For Burning , just before the Stratford season . |
| 26 | He had been twice to Iraq . |
| 27 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |
| 28 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 29 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 30 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |