Example sentences of "he has [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With reference to War Office letter of 3rd March 1945 regarding your husband Lieutenant L. G. Cairns , Army Air Corps , I am directed to inform you that in view of the length of time which has elapsed since Lieutenant Cairns was reported missing , during which no news of him has been received from any source , the Department has reluctantly , and with deep regret , reached the conclusion that he lost his life . |
| 2 | Richard 's second victim , Clarence , is also taken in by the hypocrite 's feigned concern , but since the real plot against him has been done through intermediaries he may seem less blameworthy . |
| 3 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |
| 4 | He has been affected by hamstring problems twice since joining us . |
| 5 | But in all cases he has been stopped by diocesan authorities as the centres are outside his parish . |
| 6 | In four of the illustrations the defendant appears naked after he has been mugged of his clothes . |
| 7 | It is clear that he has been speaking for some time . |
| 8 | It seems to have been working — up to a point at least — and even members of the opposition Popular Front agree that he has been accepted by many Moldavians . |
| 9 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |
| 10 | He has been trying for three years and he said today : ‘ Maybe it is because , God knows , I 've had some leg problems and I just can not climb those steps that easily , ’ he joked . |
| 11 | He has been living in a succession of ANC havens . |
| 12 | For much of the last couple of decades , he has been living in France , where he is accorded a reverence denied him in his native country . |
| 13 | But that belonged to a white person who was , who could speak Punjabi very well , I think he wa he has been living in India for some time . |
| 14 | He has been living in Thailand , has a Thai wife and speaks Thai . |
| 15 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 16 | He has been competing on wheels for some 28 years . |
| 17 | The thing is , he has been using for such a long time . |
| 18 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |
| 19 | Although he has been looking for the little creep to beat him up for having steered him wrong , he realises that it is better to be with someone , even someone like Ratso , than to be alone . |
| 20 | He has been looking for pollen , the other standby of people who study ancient plants . |
| 21 | He has been looking into the possibility of a career outside cricket as a pilot because of further problems with his back . |
| 22 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 23 | He has been plotting since his arrival in Scotland . |
| 24 | He has been wandering about Wales , giving a spending pledge here and a spending pledge there . |
| 25 | As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence . |
| 26 | Even he has been threatened with death . |
| 27 | He has been threatened by gangs , his fences have been cut , his ewes scattered . |
| 28 | The day , the expenditure of emotion — the oyster knife he has been inserting into these women 's lives — have tired him . |
| 29 | With help from master decorator Renzo Mongiardino , who is known to have helped him in the past , Ortiz-Patiño should have little trouble showing off the rare editions , manuscripts and fine bindings first collected by his father ; his own Dutch and Spanish Old Master paintings ; English silver by Paul de Lamerie and the gold snuff boxes he has been collecting since 1956 . |
| 30 | It was Steve McQueen who was picked to play the French criminal determined to escape from Devil 's Island where he has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a pimp , of which he claims he is innocent . |