Example sentences of "[conj] [vb past] [conj] he have be " in BNC.

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1 He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions .
2 The employer refused to do this so Mr Bowles resigned and claimed that he had been constructively dismissed and that his dismissal was unfair .
3 One " secret witness " , subsequently identified as a German of Iraqi origin , recanted his testimony during the trial and claimed that he had been forced to make a false testimony under duress .
4 Ramsay decided and declared that he had been mistaken in staying on in Berwick thus long .
5 That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer .
6 He was not prosecuted when he returned to England in 1919 and insisted that he had been employed by British Naval Intelligence .
7 William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock .
8 The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time .
9 He denied all charges and said that he had been severely tortured .
10 At his trial in September 1989 , Suh Kyung-won testified to having been ill-treated during his interrogation and said that he had been forced to make false statements under duress .
11 He also indicated that he had disagreed with other members of the government on the running of the education department and said that he had been " gradually marginalized within the government " .
12 He was grateful to Taheb for having sought work for him through Merymose , and wondered if he had been unduly mistrustful of her .
13 Francis Tidbury admitted his guilt from his death cell , but stated that he had been attacked by the police and had killed in self-defence .
14 Later he married abroad , and when Margery was about sixty years old brought his German wife and child on a visit to her , but died when he had been in England about a month .
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