Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb -s] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 2 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 3 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 4 | Television came in the wake of other consumer durables : a vacuum cleaner and a boiler for the washing — once used to cook a lobster my father has brought back from the Highlands where he 's been on a spell of painting stations that will be closed by the Beeching plan a decade later . |
| 5 | Or are you simply afraid to show openly what you can do where he 's been before you ? ’ |
| 6 | Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary . |
| 7 | Today , closer to Clapton ( geographically ) than he 's been in a long while , Anthony Newley is relishing the chance to prove he 's still up to a tough dramatic performance eight shows a week and , to follow , he has plans for a musicalised Richard III . |
| 8 | It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades . |
| 9 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 10 | Wade Dooley is by no means the only player who was apt to be more profitable under the old laws than he has been under the new . |
| 11 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 12 | All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours . |
| 13 | What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars . |
| 14 | ‘ It seems to me that everyone thinks he 's ill merely because he is less rude and rather more bearable than he has been in the past , ’ the head said irritably . |
| 15 | He intended no offence to Scott , who was the leading living architect , and only wanted to appeal to his good sense and taste , but he could not understand Street 's attack on him , whose attitude that ‘ no one is an architect until he has been in Rome ’ , is the same as our grandfathers . |
| 16 | For a man who sounds like he 's been to hell and back and been burned along the way , Mould has returned to heal old wounds . |
| 17 | I wonder if he 's been to the doctors with it . |
| 18 | " If he 's been in the tidal river , would n't the water be tidal water anyway ? " |
| 19 | If he 's been in the area , they may know something . ’ |
| 20 | I thought , I wonder if you knew cos he 's been about a lot lately . |
| 21 | Yes , cos he 's been on the gin and Martini . |
| 22 | I think he is security cos he 's been in a couple of times has n't he ? |
| 23 | ‘ Coppell 's regarded as intelligent because he 's been to university , ’ the Irishman said . |
| 24 | I FEEL sorry for him because he 's been through so much — hammered in every way . |
| 25 | Captain Allan Border said : ‘ Obviously I feel a bit sorry for Jonesy because he 's been in the side for a long time . |
| 26 | " Your pal at the shipping office was n't hard to check on , because he 's been in our hands — no charge in the end , but he was detained for twenty-four hours while inquiries were made . |
| 27 | So er how does Paul relish the prospect of of playing up front , cos it 's a role that er he has n't played in while he 's been at County is n't it ? |
| 28 | ‘ He 's made a marvellous recovery since he 's been with us in Barbados . |
| 29 | " His hair has been better since he 's been with Sarah Brightman , " confides one long-term associate , " and perhaps he developed more ofa sense of humour . |
| 30 | He has been like that for since he 's been with her he has |