Example sentences of "[subord] he had be [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | Both the drainage and the ventilation were better than he had been accustomed to . |
| 2 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 3 | If he had been close to the cliff I would not have been able to see him , but I could see the whole section of shoreline , and there was no boat there . |
| 4 | If he had been indifferent to Catherine , if he had not loved her at least as much , more , than she did herself , she could not have done it . |
| 5 | But he could not move and , even if he had been able to , he knew that the Robemaker could fell him in a breath-space by sorcery . |
| 6 | If he had been able to , how gladly he would have hired himself out to either of the wealthy men whose daughters had died . |
| 7 | He moved on up the street , or would have moved on if he had been able to . |
| 8 | Richard had never done anything like this , nor would he : even if he had been unfaithful to me — though as far as I knew , he never had — he would never humiliate me publicly . |
| 9 | In a statement on July 31 the IRA said that Gow had been killed because he had been central to the formulation of British government policy decisions on Northern Ireland , including those during the hunger strikes of 1980-81 and the " shoot-to-kill " operations of 1982 , and had remained a close confidant of the Prime Minister until his death . |
| 10 | His arthritis made it impossible for him to walk as he had been used to doing . |
| 11 | Geoffrey 's appointment was appropriate , as he had been assistant to the marshal in the Welsh war of 1282 . |
| 12 | En route , we passed a woodman baking potatoes and chestnuts on the ashes of a fire , as Jean-Claude had done , and a huge swarm of angry , iridescent flies hovering over a dead fox , as he had been accustomed to finding close at hand . |