Example sentences of "[adv prt] [subord] he have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Driving very slowly over the narrow bridges spanning the fast flowing streams which stemmed from the River Ouse , he noticed that a massive flock of coots had flown in while he had been away . |
| 2 | So er how does Paul relish the prospect of of playing up front , cos it 's a role that er he has n't played in while he 's been at County is n't it ? |
| 3 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 4 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 5 | And the great stars were swimming through where he had been . |
| 6 | This entitles him to refuse to hand them over until he has been repaid the money repayable to him . |
| 7 | It 's claimed an argument with one of the defendants , 21 year old Simon Williams developed over whether he had been invited . |
| 8 | He moved on up the street , or would have moved on if he had been able to . |
| 9 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
| 10 | Mark then told him of the occasion when he had been driving down O'Connell Street some twenty or so years before , when he had inadvertently misunderstood the hand signals of the policeman on traffic duty , and had moved off before he had been cleared to do so . |
| 11 | Bombs went off as he had been warned that they would . |
| 12 | Business had piled up while he had been ‘ milksopping ’ around in Waterford . |
| 13 | A wild idea occurred to him — why did n't he just get his spare shirts and the few pieces that he 'd picked up while he 'd been staying here , throw them all into a bag , and jump on a train or a bus to present himself on their doorstep ? |
| 14 | Wade himself described the surrender of Carlisle as ‘ very scandalous and shameful , if not treacherous ’ , but it would have held out if he had been more encouraging . |
| 15 | The other boy , David , was also puzzling about his experience in the cutting and had resolved to go back and try to find out if he had been dreaming ; somehow he did not feel frightened but more determined to see the tramp and make friends with him . |
| 16 | But he missed out because he had been in Copenhagen trying for a place in the Olympic team . |
| 17 | Education standards had deteriorated to such an extent by 1997 that Billy Johnson could n't work out whether he had been born a day too early or too late to vote , or whether his birth had been induced or retarded . |
| 18 | No he came back he came back after he had been at the meeting . |
| 19 | He had not come back after he had been given general advice , and he had what he describes as an uneasy peace in the relationship with his girlfriend . |
| 20 | Even as the answering hail of fire swept all around where he had been , he was wriggling away on his stomach into an alleyway . |
| 21 | On no account should he be allowed simply to get in his car and drive around before he has been pronounced competent to drive , and has organized his driving licence and insurance accordingly , if for no other reason than that his insurance would be invalid if he did have an accident . |
| 22 | And in one respect it 's not quite erm as straightforward as I 've made it appear , and perhaps after all I 'm not wrong in making the claim I did , because E P Thompson , the historian , erm was the person who really made the discovery in the first place , and it came about because he had been interested in the possible links between the Muddletonians and Blake , and this led him to ask questions which , in a roundabout way , led to the discovery of the archive . |
| 23 | Well , it had come about while he 'd been receiving the wet canvas treatment . |
| 24 | ‘ I suppose he calls round after he 's been to see Rosa , ’ I said . |