Example sentences of "he [verb] [been] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And besides , there were two things bothering him at the same time and he had assumed that the second problem nagging at him had been Cipolla . |
| 2 | In recent months , the only countries which have welcomed him have been Yemen , Sudan and Tunisia , where the PLO has its headquarters since being driven out of Beirut in 1982 . |
| 3 | Unix System Laboratories Europe has appointed Irwan Owen as account manager for the UK and Ireland — for the past year he has been USL 's account manager for Italy . |
| 4 | He has been Lord Lieutenant of Norfolk since 1978 , and lord lieutenants are guaranteed a seat in the emergency underground seats of government . |
| 5 | Among other jobs , he has been Italy 's representative at the International Monetary Fund . |
| 6 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 7 | He has as many centuries in the two-and-a-bit years that he has been England captain as he had in all his years in the ranks . |
| 8 | He has been an Honorary Officer since holding the position of Honorary Treasurer for a year in 1984/85 and since then he has been Northern Ireland Special Representative . |
| 9 | Gran had always been tetchy and impatient with Ben Hesketh , she remembered ; and he 'd always called her Ma , as if he 'd been Jake 's brother . |
| 10 | She was beginning to see why he 'd been Jake 's friend . |
| 11 | And another boys name was Thomas and he could n't write that cos all last year he 'd been Tom an he 'd forgotten how to write his surname they 're not dim children both of them |
| 12 | I recognised Lingary 's name from the times Andy had talked about the Falklands ; he 'd been Andy 's CO , the one Andy blamed for the deaths of some of his men . |
| 13 | He had been Sam 's best customer during his vacation , had spent a few pounds on skates and cycles , and had in fact hired these for days at a time . |
| 14 | He had been Dean of Chichester since 1567 , during which time he had succeeded in alienating almost the entire chapter by his forthright attacks on venality , pluralism and spiritual laxity . |
| 15 | He had been Gerry Troy 's first recruit . |
| 16 | He had been Chamberlain 's junior minister , and the rapid reversal of position , combined with Chamberlain 's habitual stiffness of manner , probably made his touch less sure than usual . |
| 17 | He had been Felix 's friend since 1938 . |
| 18 | According to the author of the Annals of Xanten ( he had been Louis the Pious 's court librarian and perhaps a protégé of the emperor 's wife in the 830s ) , " The Empress Judith , Charles 's mother , died at Tours , having had all her wealth taken from her by her son " . |
| 19 | More recently he had been Polisario 's representative in Algiers . |
| 20 | He had been Sir Lancelot , which was a heroic character , but what we wanted with Ian was someone resonant that the public would respond to . |
| 21 | Yet he had been Brearley 's choice to succeed him , for he had perceived that Botham was an intelligent , tactically aware player and believed that he offered ‘ tremendous hope for a new , vital start ’ . |
| 22 | How he had been Juan something living in a Mexican pueblo before the Apaches came raiding and took some of the women and children . |
| 23 | When he testified , he had already been characterized as Batman , and Superman and , most frequently , Rambo ( but ‘ a Rambo with all his clothes on ’ , as The Spectator put it ) ; he had been a composite Clint Eastwood type , part-lonesome cowboy , part Dirty Harry ; he had been James Bond and James Dean , ‘ the rebel with a cause ’ . |
| 24 | She knew that he had been Eddie 's best friend — that was why she 'd always found it so hard to accept that he could have deliberately driven her brother off the track . |