Example sentences of "he have be a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He is very good , Mr , and he has been a county councillor in I think Staffordshire , before the days of pindown I have to er , hasten to add , but he does know both sides of the er , street as it were . |
| 32 | It was Mr Deans 's first trip to an offshore installation , although he has been a seaman for a number of years . |
| 33 | For the last two years he has been a hospital porter . |
| 34 | He has been a victim of his own success at Arsenal in terms of his public profile but he 's professional enough to curb his celebrations when he scores a goal . |
| 35 | He has been a director of Wise Speke , one of the largest regional stockbrokers in the UK since its acquisition by Sturge in 1987 . |
| 36 | The Newcastle boss said : ‘ He has been a revelation , but maybe that 's because this is the best team he has played in . ’ |
| 37 | This season he has been a revelation . |
| 38 | But he has been a revelation . |
| 39 | I sympathise with my hon. Friend the Member for Kilmarnock and Loudoun ( Mr. McKelvey ) but surely he has been a Membeer long enough to know that the Government do not care . |
| 40 | Yet the harsh fact remains that Rushdie has won much greater commitment from politicians elsewhere than from those in the country of which he has been a citizen for a quarter of a century . |
| 41 | He has been a fixture in the past six games but those games were often disappointing draws . |
| 42 | He has been a Justice of the Peace for 27 years . |
| 43 | In his time , Even allowing for the good fellowship that exists throughout bowls , he has been a beacon of sportsmanship . |
| 44 | Apart from his initial training he has been a weaver all his time . |
| 45 | For most of his life he has been a Salvation Army member and for seven years the opposition Chief Whip . |
| 46 | He has been a joy to produce as he is a very willing , ‘ happy ’ horse who thoroughly enjoys learning new things . |
| 47 | He has been a pain in Potter 's arse for five long years . |
| 48 | ‘ He has been a tower of strength to her and she is full of admiration for him . |
| 49 | Should Kernaghan be ruled out of the final seven matches it will be a blow , because he has been a tower of strength and a model of consistency . |
| 50 | All that he has is a right to apply for postponement under section 5(2) . |
| 51 | He 'd been a tearaway before but now he was vicious . ’ |
| 52 | More than that , he 'd been a friend , in a funny sort of way . |
| 53 | He 'd been a gentleman , she could n't fault him on that . |
| 54 | Liese 's father owned a chain of garages : he 'd been a prisoner of war , had married an English girl . |
| 55 | He 'd been a dinosaur in a world of pettiness . |
| 56 | Peter thought that he 'd been a fool to imagine that there might be something wrong between his hosts ; he put it down to an overactive imagination coloured by wishful thinking . |
| 57 | He 'd been a boarder himself — last year when his parents went to the States on three months ’ sabbatical . |
| 58 | Oh yes I enjoyed it very much but erm we had American visitors around and we had one a Captain and I 'm afraid we all fell for him cos he seemed such a handsome man and he 'd been a hero in the war , and he was engaged to , then to the then president of America 's daughter , so they informed us but erm I do n't know whether it was the truth , that 's what they , they said but of course some of the , some of the things had to be cast , the bodies had to be cast and they were , they were I do n't know whether you 'd have heard of the Orritor |
| 59 | He 'd been a bit scared of her before , but he was even more so now she was acting as if she was n't right in the head . |
| 60 | Thought he 'd been a bit hurt when we grabbed him . |