Example sentences of "he have be [verb] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Though he descended , was made low , now He has been raised up high . |
| 2 | Since February he has been snapping up American commercial property . |
| 3 | Many people say that near Frankenhausen in Thuringia is a mountain in which Frederick Barbarossa may be found … he has been seen there many times . |
| 4 | Penang 's chief minister , Koh Tsu Koon , is so intent on his high-tech strategy that he says he has been turning away unsuitable investors . |
| 5 | He has been put up five pounds for a decisive 2length defeat of Wellknown Character and , as just about the most progressive horse in today 's field , he can scale this extra rung . |
| 6 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 7 | He 'd begun to tell her an anecdote about the time he 'd been trying out some play in Brighton when he 'd very nearly missed the curtain because he 'd accidentally locked himself in his hotel-room , and how if it had n't been for his wife — ; realising his blunder he broke off and wanted to know if she minded his being married . |
| 8 | Anthony Gallagher wept in the dock as he heard he 'd been found not guilty of causing the deaths by reckless driving . |
| 9 | He 'd been married about two months when he went to bed one night and woke up the next morning and he was back in the field and 17 again . |
| 10 | Erm and that was just an excu h him being expelled for driving someone into town was simply an excuse because he 'd been caught so many other times . |
| 11 | He 'd been working too hard to spend time with women , and the courting of his wife had been very proper and unexciting . |
| 12 | And maybe she would n't have been expecting him to ‘ dance attendance ’ on her if she had n't soon discovered that he 'd been spending so much time with his personal assistant ! |
| 13 | What a fool he had been to waste so much time being " poetic " and not eating . |
| 14 | The beer he had been drinking steadily all day was now weighing heavily on his stomach . |
| 15 | Hindley Earnshaw should have been at Catherine 's burial yesterday , but he had been drinking so much that he could n't go . |
| 16 | The next he had been jerked fully awake and found himself at the centre of a circle of strange , hostile creatures , the like of which he had never seen in his life . |
| 17 | He had been saving as much as possible from the grant in the hope of amassing a small sum which would tide him over until he could find a local job . |
| 18 | At the next meeting , Mr E almost casually mentioned that he had been trying out one or two of last week 's ideas and that Dave seemed quite responsive to him this week . |
| 19 | At the back of his mind was the fear that he had been given too much air , that his lungs could not sustain the pressure , that they would collapse as Commander Barnwell 's had collapsed . |
| 20 | He had been given so many things to digest , not the least that it was possible Celia might have a father still living . |
| 21 | I had been devoted to him , and he to me , and he had brought me a happiness I thought never to find again , But , I argued , he had been granted nearly forty more years of life , and had our son as memorial . |
| 22 | On Saturday , he had been tied up all day in the stable , but had taken a walk round the Broad over the lunch hour . |
| 23 | Little by little , the story pieces together the trials of this greedy and repulsive rag of a man , who assumes the name of Gemmy Fairley : his terrible early life as a rat-catcher 's assistant in England , where he had been treated as little better than a beast of burden by his loathed master , Willett ; how he managed to survive as a stowaway on board ship in order to escape the consequences of the revenge that he wreaked upon his master ; his arrival in Australia and his early life there , lived among the aborigines . |
| 24 | It would have been difficult to accept if he had been killed so young in a car crash , but when it was so senseless … ‘ |
| 25 | It lent to his words an air of impressive finality , as if he had been thinking out each point for the first time and had come to a halt . |
| 26 | The party set off downstream along the river bank and Rostov concentrated on making it look as if he had been riding bareback all his life . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | But one prospective licensee contracted by Community Care claimed he had been offered just two days in which to train and meet possible purchasers of his service . |
| 29 | He kept quiet He had been wondering where political allies might be , if anywhere . |
| 30 | And for the last five years he had been doing just that . |