Example sentences of "he [vb -s] be [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richard 's second victim , Clarence , is also taken in by the hypocrite 's feigned concern , but since the real plot against him has been done through intermediaries he may seem less blameworthy . |
| 2 | Most of the £406 million cash he owes was swindled from pension funds by his father before his mysterious death last year . |
| 3 | He has been affected by hamstring problems twice since joining us . |
| 4 | As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence . |
| 5 | Even he has been threatened with death . |
| 6 | He has been threatened by gangs , his fences have been cut , his ewes scattered . |
| 7 | It was Steve McQueen who was picked to play the French criminal determined to escape from Devil 's Island where he has been sentenced to life imprisonment for the murder of a pimp , of which he claims he is innocent . |
| 8 | He has been compared to Freud , Whitman and Wordsworth , although the late John Cheever , in one of his more paranoid outbursts , suggested that he was merely an invention of the New Yorker . |
| 9 | He ca n't go on sinning because his he has been born of God . |
| 10 | Olivier Nwaha Binya'a : a Jehovah 's Witness , he has been detained without charge or trial since May 2984 because of his religious beliefs . |
| 11 | The way he has been treated by Kinnock has infuriated me , and Labour 's failure to adopt strong gay policies is disastrous . |
| 12 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 13 | ‘ I think Neville Southall has been the best goalkeeper in England for a long time , but now he has been joined by others like David Seaman , Tony Coton and Chris Woods . |
| 14 | He has been joined by Harwich MP Iain Sproat and Lord Braybrooke , the Lord Lieutenant of Essex . |
| 15 | He has lost twice , to Michael Watson and Eubank , but at the increased poundage he has been extended by Sugar Boy Malinga and Lenzie Morgan . |
| 16 | McHale plans to use the extra £50,000 he has been given for players ' wages to good effect . |
| 17 | Silva , who went on to make a 30-footer for an eagle at the second , insists that the confidence he has been given by Mansell 's support has counted for as much , if not more , than the money . |
| 18 | He has been replaced by Muriel Dunbar as Acting Assistant Director ( National Certificate Unit ) . |
| 19 | He has been replaced by Tim Wakelin , former area manager for Whitbread on the South Coast . |
| 20 | Pity the way that he has been touched by faith within our local community . |
| 21 | Since he started selling the devices Mr Tudor says he has been inundated with orders . |
| 22 | He has been chattered to death . |
| 23 | He has been supported by members of the Birmingham Six and Guildford Four , whose cases he fought . |
| 24 | Far from the rugged nature of most combat sportsmen , he has been sidelined by injuries only too often during his career , though , in his eight-year period as Britain 's top middleweight , he has won two European silver medals , a world bronze medal , and two Olympic fifth places . |
| 25 | The student here may inform himself whether he has been favoured by heaven with this truly divine gift . |
| 26 | The fact that the organisers decided that it was time to show Spanish Pop and the French New Realists made sense ; Martial Raysse has always seemed to me a very interesting artist , but he has been ignored outside France . |
| 27 | He has been plagued by injuries and has only started four first team games this season . |
| 28 | He has been jailed for explosives offences in Ulster and has previously been denied a visa . |
| 29 | So , in Danger Rock , the practical knowledge of small ships and heavy seas belonging to the sailor known as Shelty is available to the apprentice of eighteen , Jim Naylor , who for his part rises to the challenge of danger ( when he and his fellow apprentices land on an uninhabited island off the Newfoundland coast after their ship has been holed by ice ) because he has been trained with command in mind . |
| 30 | Why has he sent Duncan 's eldest son north , after he has been kept at court all these years ? |