Example sentences of "[vb base] he have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 2 | Villagers are demanding the removal of their local bobby because they say he 's been over-zealous in handing out parking tickets . |
| 3 | Photographs of that time show him to have been clean shaven and crisply dressed . |
| 4 | Cause he had been used to me lookin' after him doon at my mother 's hoose … |
| 5 | We understand that was de-mob happy for quite some time and erm I know he 's been disappointed recently with the Tories losing control of the local Council down down in the happy glades down South but the pink gin and pink knickers approach of Councillor is becoming a joke . |
| 6 | You know he 's been good going to bed . |
| 7 | I suppose it was because we know he 's been highly-strung lately — his peculiar behaviour at the airport , for a start — that it took longer than it should have done for me to think over properly what had happened . |
| 8 | Gin er was that er Alderman , the old gentleman , the older alderman , you know he 's been dead years now from , and erm they were very good . |
| 9 | I do n't like baked beans , he knows it , I suppose he 'd been lazy . |
| 10 | I er , I suppose he 's been more of a stage |
| 11 | Police believe he has been responsible for similar crimes in Manchester and Accrington , Lancashire . |
| 12 | Our own century has seen so many movements against the conflation of scientific and religious language that we may , on purely philosophical criteria , judge him to have been misguided . |
| 13 | I think he 'd been better for a long time on and off |
| 14 | Little wonder he 'd been amazed — Dane Jacobsen was probably more accustomed to having to fight adoring women off . |
| 15 | See he 's been married before |