Example sentences of "his [noun] have been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | My client and his girlfriend have been together for some six year , they have three children aged six , five and four . |
| 2 | But , unfortunately , Neil was not even safely ensconced in the house , as he should have been , so Ewen Mackay was free to resume whatever his business had been there on Wednesday night . |
| 3 | Scott was sensitive to the pressure his wife had been under for the past month . |
| 4 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |
| 5 | I do not know a great deal about the Labour party 0898 line , but I know that the complaints that I have made for many years to the Minister and his predecessors have been not about Neil Kinnock but about the serious pornographic messages that I believe have contributed significantly to the crimes of violence against women that take place outside on the streets . |
| 6 | His role has been rather like that of a stand-up comic warming up the audience for the main event . |
| 7 | He seeks consistently to mislead the people of Scotland about the reality of what he and his Government have been about in Scotland in the past 12 to13 years . |
| 8 | His secretary had been out to lunch , and he had been going through the files stored on the disk she was currently using , looking for a copy of a contract that he urgently needed to check . |
| 9 | A Whalby and his son had been there for as long as anyone could remember and Dadda used sometimes to boast on his good days that Alfred Osborn Tace had himself been a customer and that Whalbys had re-covered the seats of the Hepplewhite chairs at Chesney Hall . |
| 10 | His section has been over for some time . ’ |