Example sentences of "he have [adv] been [adj] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he has also been careful to repudiate that facile misreading of deconstruction — prevalent among literary critics — which thinks to turn the tables on philosophy by proclaiming that ‘ all concepts are metaphors ’ , or that philosophic truth-claims are really metaphorical through and through . |
| 2 | He has also been able to indulge his interest in motor sport through his work for the Order . |
| 3 | He says that he has never been afraid to put national and constituency issues ahead of the party when appropriate . |
| 4 | He has never been able to do anything about the chairs . |
| 5 | For he has never been able to sleep much and talks with me late into the night . |
| 6 | He feels sorry for people who are disabled although he has never been able to walk properly himself . |
| 7 | He says he has never been able to get the image out of his mind . |
| 8 | Hoffman 's face has never been very expressive ( sometimes his rabbit stare makes me think that the great Maureen Stapleton has spawned an emotionally retarded.son ) , but he has always been able to get our empathy . ’ |
| 9 | Few know of the hard and unremitting labour of editing he has always been prepared to do , and for which there is so often so little proper recognition . |
| 10 | He has always been careful to balance his busy executive life with a strong interest in extramural activities . |
| 11 | It 's one of the quirks of the system , one of the little perks of the job , that he has therefore been able to make erm a rather quick killing of three hundred and ten thousand five hundred and thirty five pounds . |
| 12 | Much of it was way beyond anything he 'd ever been able to dream about . |
| 13 | ‘ He 'd always been keen to try but never seemed to have the time . |
| 14 | Damn it , he had n't meant to betray that he 'd never been able to forget that afternoon , and the sweet innocence that had touched something very deep within him . |
| 15 | By this time he was writing rather apologetically to Constanze , telling her that she must be more delighted to see him back in person than with any money he would be bringing in — he had even been obliged to lend his impecunious patron Prince Lichnowsky 100 gulden , a request he could hardly refuse … . |
| 16 | He had even been able to specify a little more precisely the area where he thought they were concealed . |
| 17 | Then he had also been astonished to find that some of Sheffield 's cutlery grinders earned from 18s ( 90p ) to £1 a week . |
| 18 | He had finally been able to confirm what she had believed and prayed for these past six weeks . |
| 19 | The only lodgings James had been able to afford were so squalid he had scarcely been able to concentrate on his studies for the cold each winter , and the thought of a house and a wife to warm his bed had been added incentive to pursue marriage plans with Maud Rollerson . |
| 20 | In the three days since his interview with the Bishop he had scarcely been able to speak for the bitterness of his blighted hopes . |
| 21 | Yet he had clearly been naive to suppose that his American-accented Italian would be acceptable . |
| 22 | He had naturally been delighted to do so . |
| 23 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |
| 24 | He found it impossible to believe that he had ever been able to write a book or give a lecture , or advise a government . |
| 25 | I put my arm across his shoulders , and as he leaned against me for a moment and sobbed I wondered if he had ever been able to cry like this — like a little boy with somebody to comfort him . |
| 26 | Jacob , sharing in her delight , thought that he had perhaps been wrong to worry . |
| 27 | From Pepita 's symptoms he had rapidly been able to diagnose what kind of spider had bitten her and administer the antidote to its poison . |
| 28 | But it had always been dark , and he had always been anxious to get back to Cheltenham , where he lived . |
| 29 | He had always been willing to spend on them . |
| 30 | He had always been accustomed to rely on Fiver and now , when he really needed him , he was letting them down . |