Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This book is also different to ‘ To Kill a Mockingbird ’ because there are no racist scenes , only prejudice towards Imamu from both the Police and in some cases the Aimsleys , when their daughter goes missing and they think that because he is a street boy who comes from Harlem , a lower class area than Brooklyn and that he has just been acquitted on a murder rap , he 's got something to do with Perk 's disappearance . |
| 2 | He has just been pulverized by a being from the other side of the galaxy and what does he do ? |
| 3 | Since his debut in 1984 , he has largely been cast in the role of workhorse for West Indies , his seemingly effortless , languid approach to the wicket enabling him to bowl fairly long spells , even in hot and humid conditions . |
| 4 | He has previously been linked with the Chargers and a move down the Calfornian coast may be on the cards . |
| 5 | He has frequently been called upon to give expert evidence in firearms cases . |
| 6 | He has frequently been compared to Morse and Wexford for detailed atmosphere and strong characterisation . |
| 7 | He has since been sacked by Nalgo and has debts of £10,000 . |
| 8 | He has since been engaged in teaching at Cambridge , and has obtained experience in W.E.A. lecturing there . |
| 9 | He has since been praised by managers at his new job with Smith 's Dry Cleaners for his honesty . |
| 10 | Reserve Winners Dog The dog who came second in the Winners Dog 's original class competes with the dogs remaining in the ring , ( unless he has already been defeated by one of them ) , for Reserve Winners . |
| 11 | He has already been stripped of all his posts , but hardliners had been pressing for a public trial on criminal charges , though this looks unlikely . |
| 12 | I understand he has already been schooled over fences with considerable success . |
| 13 | He has also been appointed as one of the organisers of AMARC 5 in Mexico in 1992 . |
| 14 | He has also been accused in both Serbian and Croatian newspapers of working at one time as a hitman for the Yugoslav secret police . |
| 15 | ‘ He has clearly been damaged by it . |
| 16 | what is the point of asking a middle ranking executive about his greatest achievement at work in the past 10 years when he has probably been locked into office procedures laid down by senior management and where his scope for initiative has been restricted . |
| 17 | He has now been transferred from Long Lartin prison to Bullingdon Prison at Bicester . |
| 18 | But this weekend those memories seemed a lifetime away as he told Sunday Life of the dozens of relatives he has now been reunited with in Ulster . |
| 19 | He has now been accepted for a transplant operation at the Bristol Royal Hospital for Sick Children and the search is on for a suitable bone marrow donor . |
| 20 | Earlier this year Cardinal Glemp repudiated this agreement but he has now been prevailed upon to honour it . |
| 21 | As for Odovacer , he has sometimes been identified with the warleader who was to be responsible for the deposition of the last emperor , Romulus Augustulus , in 476 . |
| 22 | Suffice it to say that all attempts to evict Dicky from his rightful home have met with considerable misfortune , and disturbance of such a nature that he has quickly been restored to his home . |
| 23 | Rousseau ( 1755 ) , in his early accounts of the state of nature , attempted this heroic move , and he has recently been echoed from the feminist side by Shulamith Firestone in The Dialectic of Sex ( 1971 ) . |
| 24 | In fact , he has usually been regarded as the supreme Minimalist painter , but perceptions have been changing through a closer study of his earlier work which reveals him as an artist whose origins lie in painterly Abstraction . |
| 25 | Ask Mr Brown about Proposition 13 , the 1978 ballot initiative that crippled local government , and he will say that it should be reformed ; but he has hardly been spotted on the barricades shouting that cause , let alone trying to tackle it directly in the legislature . |
| 26 | Mr. Butler alleges that he has never been served with such an order . |
| 27 | Miller insists he has never been motivated by money , and his days at Love Street were probably numbered from the time St Mirren allowed his then assistant , Drew Jarvie , to leave the club and join Dundee . |
| 28 | Although sentenced to death by the Supreme Court of East Germany his sentence was commuted to one of life imprisonment , but he has never been heard of again . |
| 29 | He has never been studied in a comprehensive exhibition in this country , although twenty-two oil paintings and fourteen works on paper were prominently included in ‘ The Essential Cubism ’ which Cooper curated , with Gary Tinterow , for the Tate Gallery in 1983 . |
| 30 | His friends have confirmed that , unlike other Hollywood stars ( Michael Douglas , Warren Beatty ) , he has never been drawn to backstage machinations , has never been obsessed with the art of the deal . |