Example sentences of "he has [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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1 | He is very affectionate , and I would n't be without him now , and he has been to the vet 's for his injections so as to avoid another disaster . |
2 | ‘ Tagan is our best tracker , ’ Ratagan said , ‘ and he has been to the Greshorns . ’ |
3 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
4 | He has been for the last six years . ’ |
5 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
6 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
7 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
8 | Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary . |
9 | He has been with the police for 19 years , and has served at Colchester , Chelmsford , police HQ and for two years worked for Scotland Yard in conjunction with Interpol . |
10 | He has been with the T.A . |
11 | He has been with the company for 17 years and like Robin started his career with the company in Scotland before moving South in 1989 . |
12 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
13 | He has been at the helm for six weeks . |
14 | He has been at the head of many investigations , one major case being the doping of Bravefoot and Norwich , which disfigured the 1990 St Leger meeting at Doncaster . |
15 | He has been at the club long enough to know its workings inside out and must be a candidate . |
16 | He has been at the centre of California politics too long to escape responsibility for the state 's deeper sicknesses . |
17 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
18 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
19 | In his work he has been at the forefront of a movement fighting to drag British dance into the 20th century . |
20 | This was a splendid entrepreneurial venture and he has been on the attack ever since — as a one-man information explosion and the biggest influence on British printing since Caxton . |
21 | Hungarian-born pianist Gyorgy Gziffra has never been as well known , or for that matter , as well regarded in England as he has been on the Continent or in the USA . |
22 | He has been on the losing side in Cup semi-finals on five occasions , and if he finally makes it to Wembley this year he may look back on this bitter struggle as the crucial victory along the way . |
23 | He has been on the Opposition Front Bench for long enough to have seen and understood the redevelopment work that is currently being undertaken in Londonderry and which is being carried out in the county towns throughout the length and breadth of Northern Ireland . |
24 | He has been on the manufacturing side of the industry for over 30 years . |
25 | Julian Le Bas Landscapes Bede Gallery , Springwell Park , Jarrow , until March 20 I AM delighted to discover that Newcastle Polytechnic 's long-time art historian Alf Corlett is alive and well and living in well-earned retirement in East Sussex , where he has been on the look-out as a talent spotter for the Bede Gallery . |
26 | — CONSETT Number One Central Club 's chairman Jim Harris has headed the management team for 21 of his 26 years in the boardroom and treasurer Jimmy Hope has been treasurer for eight of the 11 years he has been on the committee . |
27 | He has been on the ICI board since 1987 and has overview responsibility for safety , health and environmental matters . |
28 | Wade Dooley is by no means the only player who was apt to be more profitable under the old laws than he has been under the new . |
29 | One is that he has been in the ring with Michael Gerard Tyson . |
30 | All this , I say , giving my gloss , can be read — and more particularly seen and heard , since Heseltine 's manner and presence carry their own conviction — as the utterance of a man demonstrating that he has been in the wilderness longer than it is in anyone 's interest . |