Example sentences of "[noun pl] because he have been " in BNC.

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1 Rosie , opening the mail , a task she no longer enjoyed , said it was impossible for Tavett to be guilty of sending the knives because he had been as upset as she was when one fell on his desk .
2 And it 's much more usual for that kind of thing to happen , so that you are more likely to get a , a minister who has a very good idea about how erm the civil service functions because he 's been part of it .
3 Now er on the air at five o'clock mister Tim with drive at five and the early evening sequence , and we 're gon na chat to him in the next thirty minutes because he 's been out shopping today and he 's spent quite a lot of money on some brand new clothes .
4 Also Keith thought he could n't have any children because he 'd been out with a girl for a year before I started going out with him and they did n't take any precautions and she never got pregnant .
5 Under cross-examination he denied his evidence was tainted by any bitterness he held for British soldiers because he had been jailed in 1968 for five years in Manchester for assault .
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