Example sentences of "[adv] he [verb] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps because he spent so much of his time alone , he told me all about his wife , his two children , the home they had bought in Sanderstown , how long he had been married , where the children went to school — all the details of life in a town of about 60,000 people . |
| 2 | He wondered how long he had been silent . |
| 3 | I know how long he has been concerned about the aggravated taking of vehicles and the mayhem caused by young men in parts of Nottinghamshire over the past couple of years . |
| 4 | " Can you say how long he has been dead ? " |
| 5 | It 's in my Quarter , of course — I do n't know how long he 's been dead but I went up there and the doctor was still there . |
| 6 | ‘ We do n't know how long he 's been dead , ’ murmured the Marshal , ‘ though it could n't have been long , he was n't … |
| 7 | If only he had been old and fat and balding … |
| 8 | He fantasized about all the ones he could have had if only he 'd been sure that a gnarled form in holey sweaters would n't join them at 1 a.m . |
| 9 | If only he 'd been able to finish off the plastic swan and the weeping-kid picture there 'd have been some hope for the flat . |
| 10 | But perhaps he had been tired , and what with hearing so much about the wretched Monument … |
| 11 | Perhaps he had been stupid , but had he actually done any damage ? |
| 12 | Perhaps he had been arrogant , and certainly he had been imperious . |
| 13 | Perhaps he had been bored , perhaps he simply had n't believed in the danger . |
| 14 | Perhaps he had been wrong ? |
| 15 | Perhaps he had been surprised to be greeted by an adult who did n't either admonish or cross-examine him . |
| 16 | Well I 've no idea , you know , I mean he all he does is all timber so I imagine he 's dealing with a quite a lot of old hand made nails and |
| 17 | So he had been churlish to Carol after all . |
| 18 | Similarly , Lyons presents in universalistic asocial terms an argument that elsewhere he admits is culture-dependent . |
| 19 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
| 20 | Where once he had been beautiful now he was hideous ; where once he had been mighty , now he was maimed . |
| 21 | Where once he had been fair-spoken now his voice was horrible , forced out by ravaged lungs through a ruined throat . |
| 22 | He said later he had been unaware they were on the list of defaulters . |
| 23 | Formerly he had been prone to pessimism , full of gloomy prognoses about over-population and wars , which would prevent mankind from ever fulfilling its dream of colonising other planets . |
| 24 | The shadows had lengthened , he thought , so that probably he had been right and it was towards evening . |
| 25 | For some time now he had been certain that he had at last evolved a diction appropriate both to the requirements of classical epic and to the subtleties of the alchemical process . |
| 26 | So far he had been able to maintain a claim to even-handedness on the grounds that he treated both sides , Moslems and Copt , with equal severity . |
| 27 | He was often overcome with temptation when faced with such delights as chicken dumplings and ice-cream and treacle suet pudding , and so far he had been lucky . |
| 28 | So far he had been quiet , staring into the darkness , though keeping a careful eye on Sir John . |
| 29 | Today he has been dead for several years , and still I have n't told the story . |
| 30 | However , it is not clear from the information presented by Burr how well he has been able to cope with the irregular morphological structure of English . |