Example sentences of "he have been [vb pp] in [adj] " in BNC.

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1 Since then he has been featured in many newspaper articles .
2 Indeed it is perhaps a pity that he did not take his own advice , after writing in the New Guide ‘ for the author of the present work might with greater ease , and probably with more advantage to himself , have worked up for the amusement of the eye a number of drawings and paintings during the time he has been engaged in this matter of mere utility ’ .
3 But Mr Krueger 's unorthodox manner ( by Texas standards ) does not bode well : he has been defeated in two previous races for the Senate , and was rumoured to have been chosen to fill the empty seat only after three previous choices had been rejected by special interests .
4 He reports that he died in the early days of the reign of Bayezid II ( 886–918/1481–1512 ) , in the year 907/1501–2 according to one report , and concludes : " Because , according to the account in the he was an adornment of the chain of Seyhulislams , he has been recorded in this place . "
5 MORDECHAI VANUNU : a former nuclear technician at Dimona in Israel , he has been held in solitary confinement since October 1986 .
6 He quickly regained consciousness but was kept under observation for 12 hours before being returned to the prison where he has been held in solitary confinement since his arrest off the Moroccan coast by the Royal Navy last August .
7 Although he 'd been kept in secure accommodation 3 times in his life , he was now in a stable relationship with a new foster mother .
8 He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned .
9 He had been born in one of the hideous concrete blocks of flats erected after the Great Patriotic War .
10 He had been born in 1829 , the year of Catholic Emancipation .
11 And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 .
12 At the end of January 1916 he had been transferred in great secrecy from Douai to Jametz north of Verdun , to take part in the ‘ aerial barrage ’ .
13 He remained until 1978 president of the European Broadcasting Union , a post to which he had been elected in 1973 and which he greatly treasured .
14 In 1910 , Tom Mann came back from Australia , where he had been engaged in political and trade union campaigning for the previous nine years .
15 He had been painted in wonderful Afghan clothes , a tunic and turban of deep blue and red embroidered with gold , clothes he had brought back from the exploits during which he had found Charlotte , the fabulous exploits that had been Alexandra 's bedtime stories every night , every single night in childhood , haunting her sleep with nightmares of cruelty and savagery in wild , barbaric places .
16 A year later , having received only part of the sum owed to him , Edward III demanded and got more : all that he had been ceded in 1358 , to which were added Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Touraine , also in full sovereignty .
17 The reality of Gloucester 's influence there is also reflected in the fact that , of all the master foresterships he had been granted in 1471 , the only two he seems to have exercised were those which best complemented this trans-Pennine interest : Bowland to the north and Rossendale further south .
18 Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties .
19 The reality of Gloucester 's influence there is also reflected in the fact that , of all the master foresterships he had been granted in 1471 , the only two he seems to have exercised were those which best complemented this trans-Pennine interest : Bowland to the north and Rossendale further south .
20 Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties .
21 These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected .
22 Zahir Shah said that he was ready to assume his " moral duty " to return to Afghanistan ; he had been deposed in 1973 by a cousin .
23 It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 .
24 It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 .
25 Under cross-examination he denied his evidence was tainted by any bitterness he held for British soldiers because he had been jailed in 1968 for five years in Manchester for assault .
26 In addition , he had been put in sole charge of handling negotiations between Cadogan 's and one of the major American corporations .
27 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 .
28 He sounded embarrassed , as though he had been caught in some misdemeanour .
29 He had been investigated in 1983 when a child complained that the trained social worker had sexually assaulted him .
30 As the leader of the Nationalist armies , he had been hailed in 1939 as the restorer of peace and order to a country allegedly on the verge of ruin thanks to Republican bad faith and malpractice .
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