Example sentences of "[vb past] he [verb] [adv] [be] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | FORMER Goon Harry Secombe , who has had a second home in Majorca for the past 15 years , reckoned he had finally been accepted by the locals when they gave him the Spanish name El Gordo . |
| 2 | He was sentenced to twelve months in jail but was released when the court heard he 'd already been in custody for ten months . |
| 3 | Magistrates heard he had already been banned for life from keeping animals when an RSPCA inspection revealed he still had more . |
| 4 | It meant he had finally been accepted back into the Royal fold after being stripped of his OBE when he was jailed for tax evasion . |
| 5 | I thought that his appearance meant he had really been suffering very much , longing for me to give up my work , and had only refrained from asking me to do so out of respect for my ‘ rights ’ . |
| 6 | ‘ We did not accept his resignation because we felt he had already been dismissed in the summer , ’ Lawrie Hargrave said . |
| 7 | He felt he had finally been given the spade to bury himself with . |
| 8 | I never knew by what road the other man would come ; for all I knew he had already been , and gone again , and all in vain , as the thief intended . |
| 9 | Looking back he said he realised how clumsily he had behaved in certain situations , and indeed what an ‘ unpleasant ’ person ( that was the adjective he used ) he knew he had sometimes been . |
| 10 | I 'm sorry , ’ she apologised , her action in not leaving a note seeming poor thanks now that she knew he had only been trying to protect her from himself when he 'd called her clinging . |
| 11 | Panic threatened to engulf him again , and the terrible desolate coldness was like an icy vice about his heart , and he knew he had never been so completely alone . |
| 12 | From his demeanour , fierce and uncompromising , I knew he 'd already been denounced by Martinho . |
| 13 | As far as I knew he 'd always been on the level , and certainly there was no harm in his treating the Fraser girl after the shock she 'd presumably had . |
| 14 | Then in the morning he thought he 'd better be getting back home so he started home and when he got home he discovered it was the harvest time . |
| 15 | Later I realised he had also been in the other two . |
| 16 | She remembered he 'd always been one for noticing things . |
| 17 | He said he had also been offered interviews with ministers in the South African government , so that he could form a balanced judgement , but had declined . |
| 18 | Managing director Bernard Segrave-Daly said he had also been hoping the Chancellor would have introduced a duty system which would have helped smaller firms . |
| 19 | He said he had briefly been a Labour Party member in 1974 . |
| 20 | He also said he had never been to St Kitts . |
| 21 | Thrill-seeking impulses led them to many momentary and immediate adventures , and it was this period of his life he referred to when he said he had never been in an orgy of more than three people , although he tried ineffectively to promote it a time or two . |
| 22 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 23 | Mr Shaw said he had never been spoken to in such a manner by another lawyer . |
| 24 | Martin Flook , 19 , said he had twice been beaten up in the previous year by Ian Coombes , a passenger in the other vehicle , who was dating his ex-girlfriend . |
| 25 | Coun Williams said he had merely been following council policy . |
| 26 | Chiesa said he had then been rewarded with the directorship of the Pio Albergo Trivulzio old people 's home . |
| 27 | The judge said he 'd already been punished a thousand times . |
| 28 | Tell him his Mum said he 'd better be good . |