Example sentences of "[that] he have been [vb pp] [adj] " in BNC.

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1 He he was very excitable , excitable and he was angry erm he was shouting at me er that he 'd been spreadeagled naked er on the floor , guns had been pointed at him and his front door had been smashed down and his er his family , his wife and children had been frightened .
2 However , the majority of MPs expressed their support , pointing out that he had been elected first time to the shadow cabinet , giving him a mandate and the right to the same loyalty which his predecessors , Donald Dewar and Bruce Millan , had received .
3 But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues .
4 But he knew that he was right and , much more , he felt that he was good , that he had been given this chance to act well , that he must take it and to take it would get him off on a new and better path ; while to succumb would be the broad and easy road to hell .
5 In the instant case the IT were entitled to find that it was not reasonably practicable for Mr Sen to have presented his unfair dismissal claim in time , notwithstanding that he had been given erroneous advice about the time limit by a solicitor in circumstances where he had also been wrongly advised as to the time limit by a member of the IT staff .
6 He supposed that he had been rendered unconscious when he had entered his quarters .
7 In 1319 , for instance , the wealthy Genoese merchant Antonio di Pessagno , formerly seneschal of Aquitaine , claimed that he had been granted 3000 l.st .
8 Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy on July 30 said that he had been made aware of the imminent attempt the day before it took place and that a " foreign power " was responsible .
9 Dr Nakajima , accompanied on his tour by Dr Jo Asvall , head of WHO 's European regional office in Copenhagen , said that he had been asked several times if Yugoslav funds frozen in the US and other countries could not be used for purchase of medical supplies .
10 Lewis was more bitter since he felt — as so many of his contemporaries did — that he had been forced all his life to live in Eliot 's shadow .
11 It was believed that Humphrey was a farm worker employed on the Normanby Park estate in the distant Past and that he had been found guilty of stealing from his employers .
12 It 's obvious that he 's been sent some kind of message , and I believe in these things .
13 Sometimes , however , a customer will complain that he has been given incorrect change .
14 Gardiner , the Observer 's architectural critic , knew Epstein , Lady Epstein and their family from the early Fifties and this biography is authorised in that he has been given unprecedented access to family papers , including letters between the artist and Kathleen Garman .
15 When best-selling author Max Telligan 's secretary , Liz , and his about-to-be-ex-wife Harriet , read that he has been found dead in Munich , they are stunned .
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