Example sentences of "[vb past] he have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He examined Sir Thomas 's corpse , pronounced him to have been poisoned , and claimed the potion was placed in a half-drunk cup of wine beside Sir Thomas 's bed . |
| 2 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 3 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 4 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 5 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 6 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 7 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 8 | But as a fiercely-contested clash ended in a 2-1 defeat , sealed by substitute Mark Walters in a thrilling finale , he found he has been replaced by his successor Graeme Souness as king in the affections of the Anfield faithful . |
| 9 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 10 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 11 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 12 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 13 | In fact , I have no reason to think that Wilson wrote this or any other letter protesting against the establishment of a wide-ranging inquiry such as Denning believed he had been instructed to conduct . |
| 14 | An outstanding example was provided by the GEC merger with English Electric in 1968 in which its promoter , Arnold Weinstock , firmly believed he had been helped by government support through the IRC . |
| 15 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 16 | He believed he had been booked in the corresponding match against Lithuania in Belfast last year — or possibly against Albania . |
| 17 | It seemed he had been sent no less than ten lords a leaping . |
| 18 | At least one assumed he had been watching the sky , there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering . |
| 19 | On arriving home at lunch time Ron was confronted with the owner of the purloined petrol , who stated he had been advised to prosecute , but in view of them being ex POWs , he would take no action . |
| 20 | He looked tired and travel-weary and his first words confirmed he had been riding hard . |
| 21 | A post mortem showed he had been hit by five bullets and had also been struck by a number of shotgun pellets . |
| 22 | ‘ I suppose they showed he 'd been drinking ? ’ |
| 23 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 24 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 25 | He then stopped himself in mid-sentence and claimed he had been joking . |
| 26 | Yesterday party leaders voiced their total opposition to violent acts and one SNP MP , Andrew Welsh , claimed he had been misquoted at a recent press conference when he apparently would not rule out sabotage . |
| 27 | Slaven claimed he had been made the scapegoat and vowed to blast Boro to promotion given the chance . |
| 28 | A doctor who examined the soldier who claimed he had been hit by the car said he found a bruise measuring 10cms on his left thigh . |
| 29 | The eccentric Cantona jetted hastily back to France after being dropped from the side at QPR , although at the time the club claimed he had been given permission . |
| 30 | He said the whip which Mr Jones claimed he had been beaten with was not bought until after Mr Jones had left the Roberts 's . |