Example sentences of "[noun pl] [coord] he [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The joint favourite Mr Michael Buckley 's The Proclamation fell at the fourth fence , which was a nasty blow to his many supporters and he had been heavily backed . |
| 2 | There was no family history of haemolytic crises and he had been healthy until December 1991 , when he was found to have antibodies to HIV-1 . |
| 3 | The clerk to the council , Mr Harry Whitehouse , received several letters from residents complaining about dogs fouling the green and nearby private gardens and he has been told the dog warden will be sent more regularly . |
| 4 | Why these particular prints stand out in my opinion from so many produced for the tourists of the time , is because the artist has not just reproduced his drawings on to plates but he has been able to produce marks that are alive and work within the context of the print . |
| 5 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 6 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 7 | Owen himself rather enjoyed the views but he had been a little surprised to learn that they had also drawn the Prince . |
| 8 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 9 | From his point of view he had asked to go to see the gorillas and he had been told ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 10 | Down the bottom there in , number page twenty six it speaks about another modest man who became a role model for me who 's name 's John now a member of the governing body of Jehovah Witnesses and he 's been quoted over the years as saying it 's not so much where you serve , but who you serve that is truly important , can you see that ? |
| 11 | This pistol was so heavy that he could not , of course , stick it in his belt ; it was all he could do to lift it with both hands But he had been so enthusiastic about it that he had willingly gone through the laborious loading of its honeycomb of barrels , one after another , and now it was ready to wreak destruction . |
| 12 | Billy had certainly been making some enquiries but he had been misinformed , Danny thought . |
| 13 | He 's got a pair of shearing scissors and he 's been doing like , this boy 's African , so he 's got , you know , Afro hair , which you can do curly-wurly signs on the back of him , it looks pretty neat . |
| 14 | Shaw spent most of his time on organization and records ; he was rarely involved directly in inquiries but he had been a first-class man on the ground . |