Example sentences of "but he have been [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Poor Anna had been very indiscreet , the fascisti were going to arrest her or put pressure on her to leave the country for good , but he had been assured that if the principessa were to live again with him quietly in Rome nobody would touch her . |
| 2 | He had pleaded guilty to two misdemeanor charges which each carried maximum sentences of one year in prison and $100,000 in fines , but he had been treated leniently because he had co-operated with independent prosecutor Lawrence E. Walsh , whose Iran-contra investigation was in its final stages . |
| 3 | Haeckel 's holistic philosophy would inspire a later generation of environmentalists , but he had been trained as a morphologist and sought other ways of displaying the unity of Nature . |
| 4 | He took no notes — why would Winterbotham bother ? — but he had been trained to memorise map references and other details of a mission . |
| 5 | His success with the coffee machine was acknowledged , grudged but acknowledged , but he had been made aware that there was an argument for calling in the professionals when it came to tampering with the thermostat on the air system . |
| 6 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 7 | But he had been reared to rule Orkney , and he would keep his place . |
| 8 | Always he felt sick when he ate , but he had been taught and he had learned , and his eyes squinted shut and he swallowed . |
| 9 | He is retired now , but he had been sent all her possessions some time after the war from the house in avenue Hoche . |
| 10 | Indeed , the slope was no more than gentle for some way back along the line by which they had come ; but he had been preoccupied with the idea of danger in the open and had not noticed the change . |
| 11 | His family background was humble but he had been brought up on the writings of Beatrice and Sidney Webb and the philosophies of George Bernard Shaw . |
| 12 | When he was small , David Miller had been every bit as spirited and mischievous as any boy , but he had been bullied into believing otherwise . |
| 13 | Oliver looked from the Dodger to Charley Bates with great surprise and confusion , but he had been told not to ask questions . |
| 14 | But he had been unafraid , although a tremor had gone through him as he entered the great Sun Chamber and found Dierdriu alone and waiting for him . |
| 15 | But he had been woken half an hour earlier . |
| 16 | Billy had certainly been making some enquiries but he had been misinformed , Danny thought . |
| 17 | But he had been bitten by the newspaper bug , and various groups of disaffected newspaper people , including disgruntled employees and ex-employees of The Times and the Sunday Times , approached him with a number of implausible journalistic ventures . |
| 18 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 19 | Digging might not be classed as essential training , but he 'd been sent on attachment to learn all about real soldiering . |
| 20 | Their veteran spokesman thundered occasionally from the back benches , but he 'd been banished to the backwoods by popular opinion . |
| 21 | ‘ It 's all right , ’ said Preston , but he 'd been shaken , too . |
| 22 | That was pretty stupid , because not only was he on the list of residents , but he 'd been seen at mealtimes by several of the other members . |
| 23 | It was surprising , now he came to think of it , that this had n't scared him off , but he 'd been lulled by her flippancy . |
| 24 | It was not his plan , but he 'd been outmanoeuvred and he knew it . |
| 25 | I think he was an Aberdonian really the way he spoke anyway but he 'd been brought up in Blair Gowrie . |
| 26 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 27 | ‘ At this moment , yes , but he 'd been promoted to registrar and would have assumed that title in a fortnight 's time . ’ |
| 28 | Whitehall would have known , but he 'd been told nothing . |
| 29 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 30 | The new Hermitage director has worked there for nearly two years as assistant academic director under acting-director Vitaliy Suslov , but he has been connected with the museum almost all his life ; his father , Academician Boris Piotrovskiy ( 1908–90 ) , was on the staff at the Hermitage for more than half a century , and was its director for twenty-six years before his death en poste . |