Example sentences of "he [verb] be [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 2 | One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government , he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign , chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences , and another on his marginal Copeland constituency , travelling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend . |
| 3 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 4 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 5 | He has been refused one review already . |
| 6 | He told me how he 'd been conned three times that week by people who took ten-quid rides , then said they had n't any cash but offered to leave a watch with him while they went inside ( usually a block of flats ) to get some dosh . |
| 7 | He 'd been smoking 50 a day for 40 years . |
| 8 | He 'd been working one of the axle springs free on an old Cortina when the jack had given way . |
| 9 | This year alone he 'd been arrested twenty three times . |
| 10 | One interesting innovation which he uses is to take five American states — California , Florida , Washington , Colorado and |
| 11 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 12 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 13 | I later interviewed the bemused recordist , and established he had been given two portable stereo tape recorders , which he had laid on the ground pointing in opposite directions . |
| 14 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 15 | He had been given six Loaches , two heavy with eggs . |
| 16 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 17 | In 1319 , for instance , the wealthy Genoese merchant Antonio di Pessagno , formerly seneschal of Aquitaine , claimed that he had been granted 3000 l.st . |
| 18 | He had been stabbed fourteen times . |
| 19 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 20 | Since then he had been re-elected six times . |
| 21 | And then , too , he had been allowed three days of parole some weeks earlier . |
| 22 | He had been offered one interview , but had decided against it because , if he obtained the job , it would have meant travelling a long distance every day . |
| 23 | But he was also a war hero who had commanded small ships in battles in the Channel , for which he had been awarded two DSC 's , and the son of Scott of the Antarctic who then , even more than now , was a national hero of mythic proportions in the eyes of most of us . |
| 24 | Working in the very competitive insurance industry , principally at Lloyd 's , he had been approached four times by four different headhunting firms , only one of whose names he remembered ( one of the smaller UK-based consultancies ) . |
| 25 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 26 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 27 | Drill , he had been told thirty years ago , is a curious aspect of training . |
| 28 | He felt he had been upsetting one or two people and that the game would be easier to control without him around . |
| 29 | He 's er , he 's been working all that time and he 's been getting two fifty . |
| 30 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |