Example sentences of "he have been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ If 'e 'd been any bigger , she 'd have had a bad time . ’ |
| 2 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 3 | He has been such a good , kind husband . ’ |
| 4 | He added : ‘ Lee was outstanding as he has been all season . |
| 5 | And this is strange because he has been all his working life that representative of law and order , a dedicated policeman . |
| 6 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 7 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 8 | This is his final total after he 'd been all the way round St Aldate 's , he went round 73 houses , and he says here , I think this is a sort of hieroglyphic that would probably mean something like 'item' . |
| 9 | Seeing as he 'd been such a pain , I was a little slow going to his rescue . |
| 10 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 11 | When the boy had first come to the house he 'd been more of a child and had naturally been treated as a child . |
| 12 | How could he have been such a poor judge of character ? |
| 13 | First , from way back in his Edinburgh days and his apprenticeship to Robert Grant in invertebrate zoology , he had been much pre-occupied with comprehensive generalizations about sexual and asexual modes of generation ( Sloan , personal communication ) . |
| 14 | After all , he was a serving liaison officer between the CIA and the White House , even if he had been little more than a sleeper for several years . |
| 15 | He had been little more than a boy then . |
| 16 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |
| 17 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 18 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 19 | Instead , as we walked down to the bar this evening , he had been all smiles and indulgent gallantry , complimenting us on our appearance , an arm lightly circling each of our waists . |
| 20 | He had been all kinds of fool . |
| 21 | She climbed down , aware suddenly of how close he was to her , closer than he had been all morning , and when she turned , it was to find him looking down at her , a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 22 | Although devoted to his family and always kind to them , he expected and strongly pressed his only son to follow the legal and political career in which he had been such a brilliant success . |
| 23 | ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’ |
| 24 | She said : ‘ If he had been any shorter he would not have survived . ’ |
| 25 | Towards dawn , she said to his sleeping back that he loved his employers more than he loved her and if he had been half the man he thought himself , he would have left them rather than abandon her . |
| 26 | He 's been all sweetness and light , promised nothing and done ditto . ’ |
| 27 | well after he 's been all this while . |
| 28 | He 's been that sad the last few days . " |
| 29 | I er , I suppose he 's been more of a stage |