Example sentences of "he have been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 31 | He had been seen on several levels of the North Star site . |
| 32 | He had been summoned to this meeting at short notice . |
| 33 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 34 | Although Duke had contested the election as a Republican , he had been disowned by most of the party 's establishment , and the official Republican candidate had withdrawn from the contest in order to avoid splitting the anti-Duke vote . |
| 35 | On each previous occasion he had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 36 | Somehow he had been infused with some of its magic — that word again , he thought wryly . |
| 37 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 38 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 39 | The sermon he preached was scholarly , and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy . |
| 40 | He had been called like this only three times before — to her knowledge . |
| 41 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 42 | Not for the first time Rostov wondered why he had been selected for this particular mission . |
| 43 | He had been pushed into this bloody situation by the need to attract public sympathy , and yet had been stupid enough to let the manifest idiocy of his questioners drive him to make a most unsympathetic exhibition of himself . |
| 44 | However I had perceived that he had been caught in that familiar predicament of being obliged to continue to the end of a story which half-way through he repented of having begun . |
| 45 | He sounded embarrassed , as though he had been caught in some misdemeanour . |
| 46 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |
| 47 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 48 | He did n't mind admitting that he was attracted to Phil Prior , but then he had been attracted to many girls in the past . |
| 49 | Since then he had been attracted to several women , and discovered both the intoxicating pleasures offered by some of them and the speed with which fulfilled desire died . |
| 50 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
| 51 | Just as with other heroes like Arthur and Charlemagne , it was thought that he had been transported to another time or place to await his country 's greatest need . |
| 52 | there 's a story here in the paper , I do n't know whether you 've read it about a little boy , ten weeks old and he 's been born with all his organs on the wrong side of his body |
| 53 | He 's been spotted in more places than Elvis Presley . ’ |
| 54 | No in fact he 's not , he 's been arrested for some other crime . |
| 55 | Now he 's been banned for another 12 months at Banbury , Oxfordshire . |
| 56 | It 's a long time since he 's been held like this . |
| 57 | It 's just a lot more difficult for a man to admit he 's been hurt by another man . |