Example sentences of "[adj] and he [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | there 's a story here in the paper , I do n't know whether you 've read it about a little boy , ten weeks old and he 's been born with all his organs on the wrong side of his body |
| 2 | For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff . |
| 3 | He was English and he had been very clever . |
| 4 | He was a Lebanese Muslim and he had been given the gun by the Palestinians who were sitting on the side of the broken street , sipping their own glasses of tea . |
| 5 | He was only thirteen and he 'd been particularly close to his mother . |
| 6 | Another time in the same club he turned to me and said , ‘ The fellow on my other side went up the Irrawaddy in 1943 and he 's been taking me back there with him . |
| 7 | Even young Mr Yardley had to be a possibility , if Mrs Doran was right and he had been ‘ hanging around ’ the tent instead of pursuing job opportunities in Burford . |
| 8 | I do , I love them , except my nephew he 's ruined right and he 's been , all this week he 's |
| 9 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 10 | What has happened with him since , since he became more of a big newspaper owner , is he shifted from that and he has been known to support a Labour government in Australia and a Tory government in Britain at the same time and George Bush in the United States while supporting Keating or Bob Hawk in Australia . |
| 11 | Herbie was Craigavon district Secretary 1979–87 and he has been a branch representative since 1978 . |
| 12 | The depth of our batting meant he had to wait longer than some , but he is a fiercely committed Lancastrian and he has been prepared to stay put and fight for a place instead of looking elsewhere for a regular spot . ’ |
| 13 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 14 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 15 | Victim ‘ improves ’ : Doctors treating Michael Gibson , 20 , who was attacked in Darlington at the weekend have said his condition is improving and he has been taken off the critical list at Middlesbrough General Hospital . |
| 16 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 17 | This was in September 1989 and he has been in prison since . |
| 18 | At the moment we just give it to Rojas — he 's the fourth assistant and a local and he 's been appointed postman . |