Example sentences of "[noun pl] and 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 | I 've spoken to Gordon at length about this several times and he has been coping with it — but only with difficulty . ’ |
| 5 | I 've been working in the sextry for four years and he 's been there all that time . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | From his point of view he had asked to go to see the gorillas and he had been told ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 8 | 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 ? |
| 9 | 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 . |