Example sentences of "he have [be] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Ian Gilmour , deputy social work director , said : ‘ He has been through a very bewildering experience in the past 36 hours , and he is not aware of all that has happened , including the tragedy of his mother 's death . ’ |
| 2 | He has been under a lot of pressure and he came out and played superbly . ’ |
| 3 | He has been in a persistent vegetative state at Airedale General Hospital near Keighley , Yorkshire , ever since . |
| 4 | Since he was pulled from under a pile of 40 bodies over three years ago he has been in a coma , unlikely ever to recover . |
| 5 | She said : ‘ He has been in a lot of pain and this just puts the lid on it . |
| 6 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 7 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
| 8 | He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 10 | Said he 'd been to a party . |
| 11 | He may well be a transvestite , but I ca n't help wondering whether the make-up was simply a blind to ‘ Prove ’ , as it were , that he 'd been to a party that night , in case anyone picked him up . |
| 12 | And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time . |
| 13 | and this is really sad , and he told me mum that he 'd been to a hairdressers and done it . |
| 14 | He spent money that he had n't got and twice he 'd been in a duel . |
| 15 | On the night of the fire , he 'd been in a pub with Smith and Winter . |
| 16 | He felt as if he 'd been inside a cell ever since his arrest , imprisoned within his own mind . |
| 17 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 18 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 19 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 20 | His clothes suggested that he had been at a party and was anxious to get back to it . |
| 21 | He had been at a ‘ knickers-off ’ party which he heard might be raided by the police . |
| 22 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 23 | ‘ He had been on a weekend retreat and said he wanted to get rid of the urges within him . ’ |
| 24 | The man said that he had been with a woman . |
| 25 | He had been for a second interview last Tuesday morning and had a nail biting few days till all was confirmed on Friday last for a start yesterday , 22nd March . |
| 26 | He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers . |
| 27 | But perhaps he had been to a Harley Street specialist — it was easier to imagine the long holiday being recommended behind thick net curtains in one of those tall houses with several brass plates on the door . |
| 28 | Lately , he had been of a mind to trace his son Arnold Thomas , but until such a day as he might be fortunate in that respect , he had no one except the lily-livered David . |
| 29 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 30 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |