Example sentences of "he [verb] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been challenged many times on the weak link in his case , which is that since American firms are free to relocate to Mexico , a trade agreement is the best way to make sure that American interests are protected . |
| 2 | He defends himself saying that ‘ for nearly thirty years ’ he has been using black and white and that , what is more , the Documenta logo was also black and white . |
| 3 | This causes him to doubt himself , that is his worthiness in loving Estella as he now thinks because he has been called common and coarse . |
| 4 | There is no suggestion of possible error of self-doubt when World Bank missions meet a fifty-year-old permanent secretary in a Ministry of Finance , even if he has been receiving similar missions , offering rather different policy prescriptions , for the previous twenty years . |
| 5 | From 1977 he has been building luxury homes in various parts of North Wales , and in 1987 began a 16-home development at Deganwy which was to collect special awards . |
| 6 | He has been granted legal aid for the case , which if successful could lead to hundreds of other claims . |
| 7 | Senator Bob Packwood faces a Senate Ethics Committee over allegations that he has been fondling female aides for years . |
| 8 | In the vestry and in his bungalow , under the pretext of extra rehearsal , he has been fondling these big brown girls and offering them cigarettes and money for sex . |
| 9 | Sun Microsystems has lost its vice president treasurer , Thomas Meredith , to Dell Computer , where he has been named chief financial officer . |
| 10 | Sometimes , however , a customer will complain that he has been given incorrect change . |
| 11 | Gardiner , the Observer 's architectural critic , knew Epstein , Lady Epstein and their family from the early Fifties and this biography is authorised in that he has been given unprecedented access to family papers , including letters between the artist and Kathleen Garman . |
| 12 | ‘ Similar offences in the past have received a fortnight 's suspension , but because of the player 's disciplinary record he has been given this long ban , ’ said the committee chairman David Johnson . |
| 13 | The attention has catapulted Singleton to the fore of the newwave of black film-makers and he has been taking full advantage of the limelight , running off his mouth on issues of Black America and the worldwide struggles of the oppressed , with a revolutionary fervour that threatens to eclipse even his hero and mentor , Spike Lee . |
| 14 | A man who has had a lot of success in a relatively short space of time — he has been training 15 years — Homer Scott has already had a Liverpool winner . |
| 15 | He has been undergoing expensive treatment and is trying to raise cash for the Ray Kennedy Trust Fund to help sufferers of the disease . |
| 16 | On no account should he be allowed simply to get in his car and drive around before he has been pronounced competent to drive , and has organized his driving licence and insurance accordingly , if for no other reason than that his insurance would be invalid if he did have an accident . |
| 17 | For two years he has been complaining that noise from the bells of St Mary the Virgin church at Down St Mary , Devon , has ruined his retirement . |
| 18 | He is entitled to reject a nomination only if the nomination paper does not conform to requirements ( 1983 Act , sch.1 , paras.12,15 ) or if a candidate is disqualified by reason of having been ordered to be detained or imprisoned for more than one year in the British Islands or the Republic of Ireland in respect of an offence or offences of which he has been found guilty ( Representation of the People Act 1981 , s.1 ) . |
| 19 | But he has been found guilty of committing serious sexual offences , and given a conditional discharge . |
| 20 | When best-selling author Max Telligan 's secretary , Liz , and his about-to-be-ex-wife Harriet , read that he has been found dead in Munich , they are stunned . |
| 21 | He has been advised that rest is the only remedy for a recurring groin strain . |
| 22 | The problem is I do n't know where he has been placing these shot . |
| 23 | One of the few senior front-benchers with experience of government , he has been keeping one eye on the national campaign , chairing almost all the party 's London campaign press conferences , and another on his marginal Copeland constituency , travelling by hired plane to Cumbria every weekend . |
| 24 | He has been waiting two years for a donor and carries a bleeper everywhere — waiting for the call telling him one has been found at last . |
| 25 | He has been studying German football , and Cologne in particular on satellite TV for the past few weeks . |
| 26 | He has been studying this rare British plant since WWF funded his first project three years ago . |
| 27 | Throughout the meeting he has been observing one student , possibly in his thirties , who sits in a long wheelchair with his legs straight , parallel with the floor . |
| 28 | He has been pursued all year by race fan Newman and his Chicago business partner Carl Haas . |
| 29 | He has been offered alternative deals to cover both options . |
| 30 | Mr Diplexcito , who has fought for three years to get a suitable house for his family — he has been offered several by the district and regional authorities — said : ‘ My wife and daughters will be staying with relatives , but I only have the car as a roof over my head . |