Example sentences of "he have been [pron] " in BNC.
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| 1 | However , this season he has been nothing like as unequivocal in the tackle and , dating from his display for the Barbarians versus the Wallabies , he was patently losing ground with the powers that be . |
| 2 | and yours because he has been he has been diligent in the extreme , in keeping me informed and in the way he and Bob and Norman , I 'm sorry I do n't know the rest of the team , I do n't know the other five erm |
| 3 | Sid was very cooperative there he did n't realize but he has been he 's spoken very well , we 've talked about all these jobs he 's done and all the travelling he 's done with the |
| 4 | ‘ He has been our most consistent performer in the last two months , ’ he said . |
| 5 | Not only had many esoterics died there ( and he did n't enjoy the proximity of death unless he 'd been its bringer ) , but the Retreat was a passing place between the Fifth Dominion and the other four , including , of course , the home from which he was in permanent exile . |
| 6 | Asked if he 'd been her boyfriend for long . |
| 7 | Kalchu , his face red from alcohol and anger , his breath coming in short shallow gasps , said that he 'd lived and worked in India for several years and that there he 'd been nothing . |
| 8 | Some years afterwards walking down here after he 'd been his for his silver wedding , golden wedding and so on er , coming down that dri drift down from the back he looked at me he said I do n't know boy ! |
| 9 | ‘ If he 'd been he 'd been wearing one , he might have had an open casket . ’ |
| 10 | It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet . |
| 11 | He had been everything she had ever imagined the man she loved would be . |
| 12 | When he had joined the ship he had been nothing but eagerness and smiles , romping about like a new puppy , but now he had turned unrelentingly morose . |
| 13 | He had been nothing but trouble for the Major . |
| 14 | He had been nothing other than polite since that confrontation they had had on the deck , maintaining the charade of their relationship with apparent ease , yet Fran had sensed the tension behind the smiling façade . |
| 15 | Blackberry was as much at a loss as he had been himself . |
| 16 | As we said earlier on , he had been they had been travelling through and Jesus had se settled down there for a while and sent his disciples into a , th a nearby town across the frontier , er to get some food and some provisions , er to last them for the remainder of their journey and Jesus is just sitting there by this well , he 's tired , he 's thirsty , weary and hungry , just waiting there and then this lady comes to draw water from the well . |
| 17 | For he loved the stags so dearly/As though he had been their father . |
| 18 | For ten years he had been her constant companion . |
| 19 | He had been her dressmaker since the early thirties and they knew each other very well . |
| 20 | He had been her lover , her first love , and now he was married . |
| 21 | He had come in at the door , he had lain down with her , he had been her lover . |
| 22 | It was as if he had been her protector , instead of the very opposite … |
| 23 | Had this self-contained man been as impulsive as McAllister when he had been her age ? |
| 24 | Most of the time he had been her Mark : vigorous , full of optimism , never letting anything matter . |
| 25 | He had been her youngest son ; when he was born his two elder brothers were nearly grown , twelve and fourteen , and his father was already an invalid , dying in a nursing home on the south coast . |
| 26 | He had been her first and only boyfriend . |
| 27 | On one occasion doctors had come to Buckingham Palace to take his tonsils out , but on the other occasion he had been what he called , ‘ a blue light special ’ ; he was rushed to the hospital with acute appendicitis , where the nurses , he said , had spoilt him rotten . |
| 28 | But I was not surprised when , several years later , I read that Sir Robert Armstrong , appearing for the government in the Spycatcher trial in Sydney , had admitted to cross-examining counsel that he had been what he called ‘ economical with the truth ’ . |
| 29 | He had been its implacable scourge , its unbending critic , preaching and practising austerity and revenge . |
| 30 | He had been one himself . |