Example sentences of "him have be a " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was Nicholas junior who had shared his night watches ; his work on the Harmonies shows him to have been a prodigy . |
| 2 | His long career in France which led him to hold high military and administrative posts , as well as amassing a fortune through the capture of prisoners in battle , the seizing of property and the exploitation of estates , shows him to have been a ‘ realistic ’ person in all that he did . |
| 3 | His will , executed on 12 December 1760 , shows him to have been a man of substance . |
| 4 | , John ( fl. 1415–1450 ) , composer , has left us about twenty compositions whose style proclaims him to have been a slightly younger contemporary of John Dunstable [ q.v. ] , perhaps a close disciple . |
| 5 | Modest in the sense that he never proclaimed his talents — and they were real and varied : he was , I have heard , a very good businessman , and I know him to have been a first rate chess player and a notable painter . ’ |
| 6 | Yeah , whe whe whether or not we consider him to have been a black sheep , then we certainly have erm , rather gone into his character . |
| 7 | Patrick had been company , tending him had been a solace , hoping for him had been a hope . |
| 8 | Patrick had been company , tending him had been a solace , hoping for him had been a hope . |
| 9 | It was obvious that the sight of him had been a shock to Tamar 's brother , but Davis was convinced that he had never encountered George before . |
| 10 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 11 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 12 | Spending even this short amount of time with him had been a big mistake . |
| 13 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |