Example sentences of "[to-vb] [conj] he have be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was n't to know that he 'd been posted to Berlin . |
| 2 | It would have been difficult to accept if he had been killed so young in a car crash , but when it was so senseless … ‘ |
| 3 | It only needed a quick glance to see that he had been rebuking her , for her face was flushed and angry and he wore the grim look that made him appear so formidable . |
| 4 | The first step in the proceedings taken by a defendant is now governed by Ords 12 and 13 and has two functions — to acknowledge that he has been served with the writ and to give the plaintiff notice that he intends to defend the proceedings . |
| 5 | The star , hailed a hero after reports that he piloted his crippled executive jet to safety , refused to confirm that he had been flying the plane . |
| 6 | In his confused state the Doctor could not reasonably have been expected to remember that he had been captured by Chelonians — creatures whose girth was of a considerably more impressive span than their height . |
| 7 | Only when he was safely inside the Passat did he look round to see if he had been observed . |
| 8 | He let himself into one of the houses through the skylight and waited , hardly daring to breath , to see if he had been detected . |
| 9 | ‘ It would appear that this Adamantios Andropulos , who is Hawkins 's temporary guest-I could well imagine that Admiral Hawkins would use the term ‘ guest ’ even if this unfortunate were clapped in irons in some shipboard dungeon — has an account with a Washington bank , name and address supplied , of some eighteen million dollars , and would we kindly make enquiries to see if he has been disbursing any of this of late and , if so , in what direction . |
| 10 | On Sept 25 , 1989 , a Swiss inquest found that Barschel , who had been found dead in a Geneva hotel room in October 1987 shortly after he had been forced to resign as Minister President of Schleswig-Holstein , had died of a drugs overdose and that there was no evidence to suggest that he had been murdered . |
| 11 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 12 | She asked whether it could be made to stick as he had been told . |
| 13 | Nevertheless , it was necessary and in future the officer who was overseeing the making of such statements should require the maker to record that he had been cautioned and that he understood . |
| 14 | He had tried to do as he had been told by the Pessarane Behesht . |
| 15 | I still wanted to believe that he had been fooling me , or testing my credulousness in a more than averagely cruel manner . |
| 16 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 17 | In more severe cases , the performer awakes , as if from a deep sleep , to realise that he has been cheated of his just desserts . |
| 18 | I tried to get him to return my smile , to confess that he had been pulling my leg ; but his brooding face was drained of humour . |
| 19 | It did not take Wigg much time to decide that he had been misled , although a fair-minded examination of the facts from the Hansard of the day proved no such thing . |
| 20 | Like most defectors , Lyalin was suffering from delusions of grandeur and it was hard to judge whether he had been reading too much of Pincher 's material or books by Le Queux dating from the turn of the century . |
| 21 | I telephoned that prison only to learn that he had been transferred to Risley . |
| 22 | The eyes of four respectable women , bright with friendly interest , were looking eagerly towards him and somehow he found himself unable to explain that he had been making a study of extra-marital relations , detached and scientific though this had of course been . |
| 23 | The basic view is best expressed by Skinner himself : ‘ A person disposed to act because he has been reinforced for acting may feel the conditions of his body at such a time and call it ‘ felt purpose' ’ , but what behaviourism rejects is the causal efficacy of that feeling . ’ |
| 24 | He was quite prepared now to admit that he had been mistaken about Marie : that she was not thick and that , though she was not very articulate , she was , in her way , intelligent , kind , even sensitive . |
| 25 | Even if you do manage to prove that he has been harassing you , there does n't appear to be much general acceptance of the fact that intimidating someone in this way might actually constitute a serious crime . |