Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] [verb] [prep] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been accused of being an agent of the CIA , and Ethiopian security gave him 48 hours to leave the country in August 1978 , but no one has found any evidence to confirm these rumours , ‘ I think it 's very unlikely that Ethiopian security would expel somebody on the basis of baseless rumours , ’ White says . |
| 2 | It followed that no individual should boast of his role ‘ but be thankful that he has been permitted to be useful ’ . |
| 3 | Now he has been talking of being ‘ more in control ’ . |
| 4 | Latterly , he had been criticized for being more concerned about " restoring dignity to politics " and strengthening Slovenia 's Catholic and conservative traditions than about solving the economic problems resulting from communist rule and independence . |
| 5 | He despised the ease with which he could now engage in a life beyond the mightiest exertions of the man he had been born to be . |
| 6 | When he did he could call himself a Wrath eagle , for the site he had been born to was that of the proudest and fiercest of the golden eagles of Scotland and his mother was a Wrath eagle before him , his father having flown up from the south and won his place at her side in aerial combat with other males . |
| 7 | He said the whip which Mr Jones claimed he had been beaten with was not bought until after Mr Jones had left the Roberts 's . |
| 8 | A few months before , when she was much younger , she would have screeched this aloud and brought the breakfast table to an uproar , but now she smiled while the coldness took careful and eternal appreciation of the fact that he had been flattered to be asked . |
| 9 | On Oct. 22 , 1990 , he had been ordered to be detained for 60 days in a military camp for sending a letter to Menem warning him that unrest in the army could provoke a " military rebellion " . |
| 10 | Even without his well , he proved the reliable crowd-puller and money-spinner he had been bought to be , although neither records nor general report substantiate the enormous revenues and popularity sometimes claimed for him . |
| 11 | He had been told to be exact . |
| 12 | He had been expected to be out of the game for at least two months after suffering concussion and a broken eye socket from a punch , but has made a remarkable recovery . |
| 13 | He was determined to be accessible during the campaign : in the past he had been accused of being too aloof . |
| 14 | He had been accused of being a Communist he said , simply because he had expressed democratic and nationalist sentiments in his book , ‘ The Negro in the Caribbean ’ . |
| 15 | ‘ Seems he 's been chosen to be the voice of Interplanetary Parliament here on Earth . |