Example sentences of "he have [be] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 During most of his life he has been in close touch with village life in different parts of the country .
2 Since Sunset And Vine 's trainer Simon Dow took over the Epsom stables of Ron Smyth last year and he has been in tremendous form since , saddling 23 jumping winners and six on the Flat .
3 An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment .
4 All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours .
5 He has been in serious office since 1979 , in cabinet for nine years .
6 Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night .
7 What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars .
8 Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity .
9 He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long .
10 If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days .
11 He had been in other worlds beside Ridgery Butts , the Yorkshire Dales and the long miles between , and thieving and creeping and running and looking after himself ; but Marian knew only the Ridgery and remembered very faintly some other sort of life , a memory of glints and patches of a different sort of sunlight .
12 He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly .
13 But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position .
14 He had been in good health , and had been subjected to no particular strain or exertion .
15 On board was a Maltese deck passenger who boasted he had been in nine different prisons in England ; after we had sailed a friend of his was discovered stowed away in the chain locker .
16 He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing .
17 People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room .
18 He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt .
19 He had been in that street two weeks earlier .
20 If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos .
21 Pike is n't a big guy , but he did this like he had been in secret weight-training .
22 Her husband , Stuart , 52 , said yesterday he had been in daily contact with her since she flew to Canada last month on the second pilgrimage to find her son .
23 He remembered the last time he had been in this situation .
24 It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months .
25 Although Sorley was to make light of the experience , he had been in considerable danger .
26 From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger .
27 One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships .
28 Others would emerge from the ruin of the body itself , and he had been in constant contact with Ian Macdonald , who was still at work in Oxford .
29 He says he 's been in terrible pain and he 's glad the operation is going ahead .
30 and when I talked to Derek Thompson an hour ago , he 's been in good form has Tommo .
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