Example sentences of "[adj] [noun] he have be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 2 | Over the few weeks he had been in Mandru 's house , Lucien had acknowledged Jeopardy 's beauty and talent , but had also despised him . |
| 3 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 4 | He gave evidence of Philip Drew 's character and also stated that on 22 June he had been to the cinema in the afternoon . |
| 5 | At this stage he had been in contention behind McCallen and Dunlop and even after his restart he still clawed his way back into the leading group . |
| 6 | There was something decidedly odd about the engineering master ; his manner was always friendly , but , in the six months he had been at the school , Robert had not exchanged more than a few words with the man . |
| 7 | Man himself has grown considerably taller during the quarter-million years he has been on Earth . |
| 8 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 9 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 10 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 11 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 12 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 13 | — 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 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 16 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 17 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
| 18 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 19 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 20 | But I tell you what , ’ he said confidentially , ‘ I reckon I know one place he 's been since then . |
| 21 | Wilko has nt a problem with buying players … the only problem he has is with selling players too cheap . |
| 22 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 23 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 24 | But then again , that 's the first time he 's been in ring since |
| 25 | Father Donnelly was also there , looking plumper these days , but still the same cheerful personality he had been in Brooklyn . |
| 26 | then also er a talk with the dep about what he 's gon na say , and I 'm gon na put at the beginning please do not refer to this as being prepared for you , that 's two times he 's been to a launch and said that and he do n't give it such a spontaneous thing , so er I did meet him and tell him |
| 27 | one man who 's been losing pounds to go on the rally is Ade Jeffries from Gloucester … for the past two months he 's been in the local gym geting fit … he 's lost nearly two stone … |
| 28 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 29 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 30 | Dance has always been his first love and in recent years he 's been on tour six times with his own company . |