Example sentences of "have [been] king " in BNC.
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| 1 | His brother has been king for more than three years . |
| 2 | Peter Scudamore has been king for the last seven seasons … but now its Richard Dunwoody 's turn to lead the race … he 's the best they say … the finest horseman … they all want him to win … suddenly the pressure 's on |
| 3 | At least he 'd been king — he had n't blown it the week before the Coronation , like we had . |
| 4 | So far as the Gospels themselves are concerned , Jesus may indeed have been King of the Jews — and/or been so regarded . |
| 5 | To suggest that Jesus may actually have been King of the Jews , is not , therefore , to stand at variance with the evidence . |
| 6 | You know , he should n't have been king . |
| 7 | A certain Osmund appears to have been king of the South Saxons until at least c . |
| 8 | But the reaction might have been different if Philip the Fair , rather than St Louis had been king of France at that time . |
| 9 | Whereas Guy had only arrived in the Middle East in 1180 and at the time of his defeat had been King of Jerusalem for less than a year , Saladin had ruled Egypt since 1169 and Syria since 1176 . |
| 10 | None of Offa 's immediate forebears had been king of the Mercians and Offa himself is another example ( like Aethelbald ) of an aetheling competing successfully for the kingship from outside the innermost core of royal power . |
| 11 | He had been king for two and a half years , and he was aged by ten . |
| 12 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |