Example sentences of "he [verb] have be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was simply lucky , perhaps , that the land which he sold had been allocated for residential purposes in a period when a new suburban city was coming into being . |
| 2 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 3 | Jim Harris , new president and CEO of the Santa Cruz Operation , was one of the very earliest in the door at Intel Corp , where he made his fortune : since 1988 , aside from his position on SCO 's board , he has has been occupied as a farmer in Minnesota . |
| 4 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 5 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 6 | Despite his chosen role as a small-town shopkeeper he seemed to have been accepted on equal terms by talented cosmopolitans … |
| 7 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
| 8 | Each use of symbols and phrases that he quotes has been debated with ‘ real teachers ’ who have advised us on the choice that will cause the least confusion with pupils . |
| 9 | Crowley regarded the most important event of his life as being his ‘ reception ’ in April 1904 of The Book of the Law , a prose poem which he believed to have been dictated to him by ‘ a praeter-human intelligence ’ . |
| 10 | Virgin , he claimed had been precipitated into a compromise with Sting largely because their key witness was unreliable . |
| 11 | Boyle showed the jury a scar which he claimed had been caused by the crowbar . |
| 12 | The charges arose from a sexual encounter between Smith and Patricia Bowman in March 1991 [ see p. 38139 ] , which he claimed had been based upon mutual consent . |
| 13 | He claimed to have been consulted by more than one European government about his knowledge of espionage and he certainly made the most of his sense of melodrama , during his later years always carrying a revolver . |
| 14 | In 15 years the 10,000 acres he leases have been sold at $120 an acre , then at $240 , and then seized by moneylenders when the drought of 1988 bankrupted an owner crippled with land boom loans . |
| 15 | Coleman once referred to ‘ heartbreaking ’ letters which he heard had been written by practitioners who had gone unprepared into country practice , but he said ‘ I have no compunctious visitings in the matter ’ . |
| 16 | Even though he appears to have been born with the skills , he needs to build up a substantial repertoire of techniques . |
| 17 | He appears to have been grabbed from behind , then , using a knife , his assailant … |
| 18 | He appears to have been capped by the Treasury and to have lost the battle . |
| 19 | Roy , the gunman from Rhodesia , had a suede jacket with tassels on the back and sleeves , and a pair of boots which he swore had been taken from a dead terrorist . |
| 20 | He seems to have been hit on the head . |
| 21 | He also regains the reader 's admiration by the way in which he seems to have been humbled by his many ordeals . |
| 22 | While at Messina , en route for the Holy Land , he seems to have been overcome by a sense of the wickedness of his life . |
| 23 | In so doing he seems to have been acting in concert with a Roman official called Seronatus . |
| 24 | Interestingly enough , he seems to have been helped in his description of Roman institutions by handbooks available to Roman officers and magistrates . |
| 25 | He seems to have been retiring to his ships again when Edmund overtook him at the hill called Assandun ( probably Ashdon in north-west or Ashingdon in south-east Essex ) . |
| 26 | A HEROIC six-year-old was reunited yesterday with the friend he thought had been killed by a hit-and-run driver . |
| 27 | A FATHER yesterday held the hand of the daughter he thought had been killed in a plane crash . |
| 28 | His unsettling nightmares continued , and the John-Augustus struggle which he thought had been resolved in Buttermere began to re-emerge . |
| 29 | Pitt-Rivers studied the processes involved when ditches were abandoned and silted up , and the broad conclusions that he reached have been verified by later experiments . |
| 30 | Even at 70 , the energetic Mr Chance can not do enough for those he feels have been restricted in their activities and their education and have little or no chance of mixing with the community . |