Example sentences of "his [noun] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained to the desk sergeant that he was worried that his sister had been murdered by her husband , Joseph Shill . |
| 2 | His sister had been to St Saviour 's . |
| 3 | And there were plenty of people who would be pleased to tell Councillor Evans that his sister had been seen in the Dog and Duck with an American soldier . |
| 4 | His sister had been restless and Dunbar had had to fight queues of people at the bar to buy drinks in the interval . |
| 5 | The child imitated the sipping movements his sister had been schooled by Tommaso to make at the cafe , like a small bird at a fountain . |
| 6 | His hope had been that she might have moved on before the word got around , no chance for gossip and so no awkwardness , but his sense of firm control in that area seemed to have slipped away from him . |
| 7 | His hope has been that better use of woodlands will give the trees greater value , and so farmers and landowners will have an economic reason for managing their woods . |
| 8 | Most of his meetings have been at Cadwell , a 150 mile round trip from his home . |
| 9 | The copious footnotes to the recipes in this book were believed by his contemporaries to have been written by Sir Walter Scott . |
| 10 | Civilian breakdown organisations more used to recovering cars from the nearby A66 broke out in a sweat when businessman David Gresty told them where his truck had been ditched . |
| 11 | Euro MP Stephen Hughes is taking up the case of lorry driver Bob Elder , 47 , of South View , Tantobie , Stanley , who faces financial ruin because his truck has been impounded after he was involved in a fatal accident in Italy . |
| 12 | It was not beyond the wit of any surgeon worthy of his calling or apothecary worthy of his phial to have been able to perform superficial embalming , and it is highly unlikely that assistance was asked for at the London end . |
| 13 | Nick had landed the job of editor and when he had told Harriet about it his enthusiasm had been infectious . |
| 14 | In Prague , where one Prime Minister has already resigned , his successor has been awarded only conditional co-operation by the opposition . |
| 15 | His successor has been named . |
| 16 | So far his progress has been encouraging and he is already taking a few steps with the aid of a frame . |
| 17 | A tenant who was wrongfully evicted from his bedsit has been awarded damages of ( 1900 ) nineteen hundred pounds . |
| 18 | It had been long since he had asked her mother to share his bed , and for some time now his favourite had been a young Khabiri concubine , a month younger than she was herself . |
| 19 | Of all his kinsmen , it was hardly surprising that his favourite had been gay , great-uncle Edward — his father 's bête noire . |
| 20 | Like him , lying underneath that mini … his heart had been going overtime then , thinking of the law closing down on him . |
| 21 | In that instant it was as if some dam erected long ago around his heart had been breached . |
| 22 | His embalmed body was carried to Dunfermline for burial , but at his own request his heart had been removed by a trusted comrade-in-arms , Sir James Douglas , to be taken on Crusade . |
| 23 | For his heart had been taken by the sight of Neva , as hers with him , and he had followed her . |
| 24 | He took Ranulf 's hand , led him over to the gibbet and pushed his hand between the iron bars until the tips of his fingers touched the decaying flesh of the hanged man , just above where his heart had been . |
| 25 | His views have been expressed in numerous speeches and newspaper articles and in two learned and witty books , Inside Right and Britain Can Work . |
| 26 | And I would guess that in this ‘ whirlwind ’ , his views have been pretty much ignored . |
| 27 | Guy bent his dark head , and stepped closer , let his lips and tongue caress where his fingers had been . |
| 28 | A corporal at seven , captain at twenty-three and Major at twentyfive , his advancement had been deleteriously rapid . |
| 29 | When the blood haze was on him , he could not stop killing and might turn on his friends once his enemies had been slaughtered . |
| 30 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |