Example sentences of "[noun pl] that he have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He spun the radio tuner at random , to leave no evidence for prying eyes that he had been listening to a foreign station . |
| 2 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 3 | He has been so busy in the last two or three months that he has been forced to temporarily stop promoting his products . |
| 4 | It 's thanks to a hefty sponsorship package from Village Homes that he has been able to make the move after only one full season of FF1600 racing in Ireland . |
| 5 | Now here was this gifted sister , who had so many opportunities that he had been denied , apparently threatening to throw them all down the drain , and bury herself in some backwater in Africa . |
| 6 | I think it was just the final end of a long line of demands that he 'd been making . |
| 7 | I thought that , instead of speaking from his notes that he 'd been speaking from year after year , he was reassessing what he was doing . |
| 8 | Why , it was almost half-past ten , yet there was no Ace , nor any signs that he 'd been downstairs before her . |
| 9 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 10 | In the few minutes that he had been preparing dinner , the water drippng from his clothes had formed a pool round his feet . |
| 11 | He was only clear about the classification as he worked through the foundations of his pragmatism and metaphysics in the 1890s , but it represents the systematization of a set of views that he had been groping towards since the 1860s . |
| 12 | As the hon. Gentleman knows , the Bill in question goes a good deal wider than just the matters that he has been addressing . |
| 13 | The shabby ghosts of the Forster coterie waft out once more to pool their romantic gossip ; Forster himself shuffles forward to complain that Joe 's doings with one brawny menial have so put him off the lower classes that he has been obliged to travel first rather than third-class on a railway journey , and once again the air is full of that peculiarly spiritless twitter about guardsmen , homosexual tea parties and cure for pubic lice . |
| 14 | The GP said that Peter had been to see her many times in the two years that he had been married , with small ailments that seemed to be stress-related . |
| 15 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 16 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 17 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 18 | When he had been given to Uncle Farmborough to be his heir and to look after him in his old age , he was considered fortunate — but how could a child reconcile itself to such a strange state of affairs that he had been given away , to the fact that his own father and mother , brother and sister , lived quite near in the village but , as it were , in a different camp ? |
| 19 | She had always told him how proud she was of him , that he should work so hard to support his son in a far-off country and how one day she would tell Oreste it was due to his father 's efforts that he had been so well looked after . |
| 20 | Willie Carson will also resting easy after suggestions that he had been wrong to bring about the withdrawal of the red-hot favourite , Superoo , before the start of Ascot 's opening event on Saturday , having done a similar thing with the favourite , Red Paddy , before the Royal Hunt Cup . |
| 21 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 22 | On Aug. 15 , 1990 , Martin Kirchner , general secretary of the CDU , was suspended from office as a result of allegations that he had been one of the most senior paid informers of the Stasi . |
| 23 | Ali had been arrested in April 1990 amidst allegations that he had been plotting to overthrow the government , but was acquitted of terrorism charges in December . |
| 24 | His resignation followed persistent allegations that he had been an informer for the " Stasi " ( the East German state security police ) during 1981-88 . |
| 25 | During preliminary police investigations into Norman Scott 's allegations that he had been the victim of a conspiracy to murder in order to protect a former lover , Liberal leader Jeremy Thorpe MP , the " Daily Telegraph " obtained a scoop from a police source . |
| 26 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 27 | Again , equally importantly , the provisions , if complied with , are designed to make it very much more difficult for a defendant to make unfounded allegations that he has been ‘ verballed ’ which appear credible . |
| 28 | He had apparently been very obstreperous during the night — trying to get up , demanding to go home and so disturbing the other patients that he had been moved , temporarily to a private ward . |
| 29 | When he felt brave enough he took off the old pullover and the tracksuit pants that he 'd been sleeping in and started to dress . |
| 30 | Rafiq , for example , who had not changed out of the grubby overalls that he had been wearing on the day of Robert 's interview , seemed to spend most of his time painting the walls of his classroom . |