Example sentences of "[noun pl] he have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | According to the Sun the man walked free after telling guards he had been attacked in the incident on Tuesday . |
| 2 | For centuries he has been looked upon as a sex maniac whose only interest in kittens is to kill them if he gets half a chance . |
| 3 | Shutting his eyes , he pressed his head back against the seat , recalling the words he had been told . |
| 4 | ‘ In other words he has been taken in by all this ‘ financial advice ’ and guidance . |
| 5 | Here was a man easily ridiculed because of the words he has been forced to eat . |
| 6 | In his own wallpaper designs he had been determined to avoid anything that commanded attention the moment a person entered a room . |
| 7 | Additionally , the buyer can claim damages which would be equivalent to the difference in cost of buying another similar computer elsewhere and any other expenses and losses he has been put to as a direct consequence of the breach , with the proviso that he mitigates his losses , that is , he keeps them to a minimum . |
| 8 | For months he had been haunted by his memories of the battle of Toulouse ; reliving the bowel-loosening terror he had felt at that last conflict of the last war . |
| 9 | He has been working very long hours setting up in business here in er in this area er he gets home late at night and I 'm afraid to say that over the last few months he 's been nagged continuously by his girlfriend who wants him to try and sort out financial arrangements because the relationship between the two of them 's not been very good . |
| 10 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 11 | The officer in command of Jotan 's escort , whose knowledge of the city was apparently imperfect and who had misunderstood the directions he had been given , had been stripped of his rank , flogged , and turned off . |
| 12 | He knew very well for what contempts he had been committed . |
| 13 | However , I must com comment on the way that since Christmas the Vice Chair of Council has undertaken the many civic duties he has been called upon to perform , assisted by his wife . |
| 14 | Zak , keeping up the tension , said that at the last of our brief stops at minor stations he had been handed a telex about Angelica 's missing friend Steve . |
| 15 | He remarked that Royal Jubilees were unlucky for him : at the Georgian celebrations he had been injured by stone throwing . |
| 16 | Mr Koenig , 44 , celebrated with champagne yesterday — and rehired five workers he had been forced to sack from his tool business . |
| 17 | ‘ What you need is a permanent display somewhere in London ; perhaps John 's photograph and the number of days he 's been held . |
| 18 | Not realising that the documents on discharge and assessment had been produced in a hurry to meet the government 's suddenly imposed deadline of 31 December , he criticised the two weeks he had been given to consult his 200 consultant colleagues . |
| 19 | During recent weeks he has been praised warmly by the mainland press in Hong Kong . |
| 20 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 21 | It was once full of treasures , but all I could think about as I stood on the battlemented roof , looking out over the Aegean , was that a disciple of Christ 's had sat in his cell in a little monastery half-way up the hill recording the extraordinary revelations he had been vouchsafed . |
| 22 | Moreover , within just eleven years he had been elevated to the honorific status of ‘ Dom ’ and sent to the abbey of Hautvillers to take up the post of cellarmaster , a position second only to that of abbot . |
| 23 | Even in India , where Owen had served before he came to Egypt , and where in his latter years he had been seconded from his regiment to an Intelligence post on the Frontier , it had been normal practice to purchase information . |
| 24 | For the past few years he has been joined in aspects of his research and conservation work by Dr Jane O'Sullivan , an agricultural scientist with an interest in the relationship between humanity and the natural world . |
| 25 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 26 | The Man Who Could Work Miracles ( 1936 ) amusingly shows a simple bank clerk trying to grasp the potential of the miracle-working powers he has been given , but frames this story within a portentous divine commentary on ‘ that little planet under the sun ’ , occupied by ‘ such silly little creatures , swarming and crawling . ’ |
| 27 | This produced , even despite that , two hundred and thirteen thousand two hundred pounds of underspending in ninety-three four on just general expenses , on operational expenses , now I think if , if the Chief Constable says he has n't got enough money to do what he wants to do , he could start by spending all of the money he 's had this year , in recruiting all the officers he 's been allowed to recruit . |
| 28 | He told conference delegates he had been asked by the BNFL board and the Government to continue in his post for a short period after March 31 as his successor — John Guinness , currently Permanent Secretary in the DoE — could not easily be released from that post until after the general election . |
| 29 | He knew from the stories he had been told in the chapel that many people in days of old had seen God or one of God 's angels . |
| 30 | The Crown Prince telephoned Falkenhayn urgently for the reinforcements he had been promised . |