Example sentences of "a [noun] he [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Royal , who looks like a bit he 's been carved out of rock , warned of what will happen if we follow in the wake of what 's been going on in the States . |
| 2 | But that was just a hope he 'd been tossing at me for a couple of years without any interest from me . |
| 3 | It is a trick he has been taught and he enjoys doing it . |
| 4 | When Robert Burrows first became a Christian he had been working on a banana plantation , but some time after his conversion a Salvationist family gave him work on their dairy farm . |
| 5 | As a result he has been threatened with libel action and even physical violence . |
| 6 | As a soldier he had been taught to err on the side of caution . |
| 7 | As a child he had been taken by his father for walks every Sunday always along the banks of the Lee . |
| 8 | As a child he had been unable to cope with the passions around him ; he had hidden himself away in books , consoling himself with golden reveries . |
| 9 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
| 10 | He himself was still quietly married to a girl he had been introduced to at high school . |
| 11 | What a fool he 'd been ! |
| 12 | What a fool he had been to waste so much time being " poetic " and not eating . |
| 13 | God , what a fool he had been , was . |
| 14 | She said he was from Moila , and ever since he was a boy he 'd been a sort of con artist , and could get away with anything- ’ |
| 15 | Balcha was a Gurage by origin ; as a boy he had been wounded and castrated in one of the many battles which Menelik had fought while subduing the southern tribes . |
| 16 | As a boy he had been crippled by polio . |
| 17 | In line with a January 1990 central government request for the resignation of all State governors , Vice-Adml. ( retd ) Rustom Khushro Shaporjee Gandhi resigned as Governor of Himachal Pradesh , a post he had been appointed to in April 1986 . |
| 18 | I mean he 's , I think we 'll miss him , but I think he 's entitled to a move he 's been here for a little while |
| 19 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 20 | It was not like Karr to use his privilege so crudely and for a moment he had been concerned by his friend 's behaviour . |
| 21 | A meeting he had been very anxious to keep a secret from the other Ping Tiao leaders . |
| 22 | He put aside a newspaper he 'd been going to read and jumped out of his cab . |
| 23 | As a student he had been nicknamed Red Leland . |
| 24 | As a teenager he had been attracted to hear Paisley because he shared his evangelical religion . |
| 25 | And just in case any men out there still need to be convinced that cleanliness is next to Robert Redfordness , how about the tale of a friend of mine who was desperate to impress a woman he had been pursuing for weeks . |
| 26 | And as someone else pointed out yesterday , he always leaves Deane on no matter how unhappy a game he 's been having — against L'pool a brill Wallace came off in the 8 ? th minute , an unsettled-looking Deane stayed on , and the crowd went bananas at Wilko . |
| 27 | ‘ I had a feeling he 'd been committed to an asylum . |
| 28 | Senior backbencher Sir Marcus Fox said : ‘ There is a feeling he has been hounded and forced out of office . ’ |
| 29 | First there 's Gary Harris … four seasons in a row he 's been in the English boys team … |
| 30 | Three times in a row he has been champion jockey but his achievement in 1992 , re-wrote the record books and wo n't be equalled by anyone else for a long time to come , if ever . |