Example sentences of "[noun sg] [conj] he [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN MCKAY , NDO for Management , has been seconded from Glasgow College where he has been Senior Lecturer in Marketing since 1973 . |
| 2 | Craftsman Dale appears , streaked in oil , from the depths of the engine compartment Where he has been tightening up a mounting bolt . |
| 3 | Mrs Margaret Jones : ‘ David arrived home carrying the statuette that he 'd won at the song contest that he 'd been to with Ken Pitt and dashed straight upstairs to see his father who had n't been well for a number of days . |
| 4 | In the Wedgwood Benn Case 1961 the House of Commons refused to allow Tony Benn to take his seat although he had been duly elected . |
| 5 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 6 | For example , one Lambodar Gorain has been held in Ranchi Jail since 18th June 1970 , for an offence under Section 25 of the Arms Act … with the result that he has been in prison for eight and a half years for an offence for which even if convicted , he could not have been awarded more than two years imprisonment … . |
| 7 | It reminded her too strongly for her own good that he had been doled out far too much fatal charm . |
| 8 | Colt knew his target at once from the photograph that he had been given . |
| 9 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 10 | Because there was no doubt in her mind that he had been talking from personal experience . |
| 11 | It was at that moment , Ronni thought later , that Guido made up his mind that he 'd been wrong in associating Jeff with the disappearance of his speedboat . |
| 12 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 13 | Was it Dominic 's fault that he had been given the job she wanted so badly ? |
| 14 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 15 | They could tell from his footprints in the snow that he had been trying to find a fold , which is what we call a stone shelter built for gathering sheep . |
| 16 | Yes , here was Hatton 's entry that he had been too ill to start the return journey until noon . |
| 17 | There will then be all sorts of rumours buzzing through servants ' halls up and down the country to the effect that he has been approached by this or that personage or that several of the highest houses are competing for his services with wildly high wages . |
| 18 | But then he frowned , because the key that he 'd been expecting did n't appear anywhere in the picture — |
| 19 | And I became conscious that , alongside a genuine pleasure that he had been released , there was also a resentment that he had got away with it . |
| 20 | He fell back into the pattern of helplessness in the face of distress that he had been taught in the cradle . |
| 21 | The post was offered as somewhat grudging recognition that he had been a signal success as leader of the first European colony in South America , a village called Santa Maria de la Antigua , on the Atlantic coast of the Isthmus . |
| 22 | Finally , on 10 November , Hawke warned the Admiralty that he had been forced by a gale and the resulting damage back into Torbay and two days later , when he tried to return to Brest , he was driven back again . |
| 23 | Not that he could not have held the ball up in that wind if he had been so minded . |
| 24 | His fascination with anything to do with space and spaceflight bordered upon obsession and he had been horrified when The New Hope had been blown out of the sky by the Seven . |
| 25 | That had been put round his neck and he had been dragged to a pier . |
| 26 | Some of the men had got into the car and he had been accused of ‘ grassing ’ . |
| 27 | Patient care had gradually restored his mind until he had been able to remember who he was . |
| 28 | Jesus has been through the agony in the garden he 's been arrested he 's been abandoned by his apostles he 's been through a trial and he has actually been through the crucifixion and he 's been buried in the tomb . |
| 29 | In so far as these involved Thorkell after 1021 it is worth remembering that Olaf and he had been associates in the army of 1009 – 12 , and that both had later served Æthelred . |
| 30 | Colm Holmes was highly commended for his presentation of the quiz and he has been invited to chair a six week Christmas quiz at this venue in November/December . |