Example sentences of "he have [adv] [verb] [prep] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | A woman police constable who reported him has since had to be transferred ‘ after being cold-shouldered ’ . |
| 2 | It offered a rare relief from what he has otherwise found to be an awkward campaign . |
| 3 | Although he might perhaps have done better to observe Wittgenstein 's adage , ‘ Whereof one can not speak , thereon one must be silent ’ , one can not help regretting that he has not tried to be less vague about the nature of personal growth . |
| 4 | Yet however radical some of Pombal 's attitudes , he has little claim to be considered an ‘ enlightened ’ minister . |
| 5 | Mr Bell , aged 39 , of Oakley Gardens , West Auckland , said he has always tried to be polite during his 17 years as a driver . |
| 6 | Radio 4 could easily rename their show Just An Hour and put Merton on every week ( Just A Minute , tellingly , is the only show he has actually asked to be included on ) . |
| 7 | From Les Amants to Pretty Baby he has often seemed to be using sexual subjects to make films about something else entirely , and in as much as sex and the life force are connected , his two sexiest films remain Viva Maria and Zazie dans Le Metro , which have nothing to do with sex at all . |
| 8 | ‘ He said he 'd always wanted to be a dad ’ |
| 9 | He 'd always wanted to be a blacksmith and he learned by doing the job . |
| 10 | He 'd only got to be told by Charlie that he 'd be leaving the High Street by the bridge and walking along the local river . ’ |
| 11 | He recalled with amazement , as if it were years ago , his first shocked vision of the adult Irina , the shaggy , sullen , unkempt ‘ gipsy ’ girl standing at the door of Red Cottage who had not spoken to him , and whom he had even conjectured to be mentally defective . |
| 12 | The speech he delivered at Labour Party 's headquarters in Walworth Road , at the moment he had confidently expected to be entering Downing St in triumph , was the most moving I have heard from any British politician since Churchill . |
| 13 | He had not asked to be made ‘ controller ’ of the Pessarane Behesht cell in Paris . |
| 14 | By looking at him now you could sense that future , and his eyes reminded you that he had not asked to be born . |
| 15 | He had not intended to be so sharp but Cranston 's secretive arrival had unnerved him . |
| 16 | He had not meant to be the first to speak , but something in the other 's silence compelled him . |
| 17 | When he left his home this morning he had not expected to be carrying Lestrade of the Yard and Sherlock Holmes , and was by no means certain he was ready for this responsibility . |
| 18 | And — ’ with a grateful glance at Benedict , who was standing by , mute , moved as he had not expected to be by this reunion he had brought about ‘ — thanks to this intelligent and resourceful young man , it is over now . ’ |
| 19 | The representative insider now fears that his job , which he had previously assumed to be safe , might now be in jeopardy . |
| 20 | ’ He was n't yet thirty when he wrote that ; he had already decided to be old before his time . |
| 21 | He had n't meant to be hurtful , she knew that perfectly well . |
| 22 | He was talking about his childhood in Wales and how he had once wanted to be a detective . |
| 23 | Reason said he could n't possibly have any recollection of a nineteen-year-old nobody he had once caused to be dismissed from her first job , but the knowledge of her bones was stronger . |
| 24 | Whether he would have been able to stick to it if he had ever risen to be national leader of the Liberal Party is not certain . |
| 25 | Maybe he saw only the person within the flesh , a person who , for all hir faults , he had reluctantly come to be very fond of . |
| 26 | He had therefore decided to be as charming as possible to her during the summer holiday in Italy — as soon as he had managed to persuade her to let him join the family there . |
| 27 | ‘ One day , ’ says Andrew , ‘ he said he had always wanted to be a father . |
| 28 | Others said that Horsley saw in Hayling the image of what he had always wanted to be — idealistic , full of derring-do , glamorous , and free from the tedious baggage of conventional business life . |
| 29 | He had always claimed to be acting for the best ; not selfishly , but for all men , as the great sage Confucius had said a ruler should act . |
| 30 | He had never asked to be Keeper of the castle in the first place , and being a man actively inclined , now that his wound from the Kinghorn affray was healed , found the confines of the castle irksome . |