Example sentences of "he had [adv] [be] [adj] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had even been able to purloin half an hour of Basil 's time . |
| 2 | He had not been able to in Edinburgh , but now seemed the ideal time . |
| 3 | He was aware of this and in principle disliked it , attempting when he first set up in private practice , to resist it , but he had not been able to . |
| 4 | He sat back , studying the two men for a time , unhappy that he had not been privy to their conversations before and after this important meeting . |
| 5 | If he had n't been able to , it does n't bear thinking about . ’ |
| 6 | He wrote to Viola again , saying that a spiteful florist he had once been kind to had put the card in the flowers . |
| 7 | If , of course , he had ever been nearer to Longner , that night , than this disastrous place . |
| 8 | Harvey wondered whether he had ever been able to , even in the beginning . |
| 9 | He began to think that he had perhaps been unfair to Tess , and he thought about her with growing affection . |
| 10 | Grunte was ancient , but he had always been nice to her . |
| 11 | He had always been close to her . |
| 12 | Half-way down the great boulevard a fakir shouted up to Dara that previously he had always been generous to the poor ; but now he understood that Dara had nothing to give . |
| 13 | He had never been close to his son , Mark 's father , but had doted on his grandson and had often talked to him of the old Russia . |
| 14 | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now , driving up to it , it struck him again that the description ‘ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate . |
| 15 | He was a family man and , despite being a native New Yorker , he had never been closer to real violence in his whole life than on the TV. screen of his comfortable suburban house in Richmond . |
| 16 | He had been awake nearly all the night with an attack of hiccups — something he had never been prone to . |
| 17 | Alcuin thought he might be employed in making peace , but the fact that he found it necessary to protest that he had never been disloyal to Offa suggests that his allegiances were being called into question . |