Example sentences of "and he have [be] [verb] " in BNC.

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1 Pamela and he had been living together for a while and , until recently , Jimmy had been close to a happiness previously denied him ; both as lover and as surrogate father .
2 He had been the youngest ever to head the ancient , honourable Fiana ; there had been seven years within its ranks only , and he had been intoxicated with the knowledge .
3 There had been too much ‘ talk and show ’ early on and he had been wriggling about , scraping his chair back and causing Mrs Singh to reprimand him constantly .
4 Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy .
5 Kate Redmond was now engaged to a quiet American , Gene Romero , and he had been moved to the South Coast in readiness for the invasion .
6 Ernst Richter was the latest recruit from the academy , having arrived the previous day , and he had been assigned to work with Mauer for the first month so that his temperament and personality could be assessed to ensure that later on he would be paired with the right partner .
7 For years it had been evident to him that the phrenological system was sound and he had been tormented by his inability to demonstrate it to people who , like the Collector , were inclined to scoff .
8 His father had been too upset to talk to Darren about it and he had been sent to stay with an aunt that he did not know very well .
9 Ramsgate had tired of the honour of his presence and he had been sent to Sandwich , under whose jurisdiction the Broadstairs police force came .
10 Jack was the eldest of the family and he had been born in a smaller house , but he did n't remember it .
11 He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents
12 But er his erm father h was the blacksmith and he had been born away up , and er he came to Ga he came to serve his time in a blacksmith 's shop at and er
13 It can be contained by medication and he had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Salford as a voluntary patient just prior to his trip .
14 It was the only thing that worked with Gesner and he had been saving it for when they went into rehearsal on Luxembourg .
15 That had been put round his neck and he had been dragged to a pier .
16 In his attempt to construct a model of the molecule , given the valencies of these two elements , there was no obvious way that the twelve atoms could be arranged into a conventional chain , and he had been wrestling with the problem for quite some time .
17 He was a Lebanese Muslim and he had been given the gun by the Palestinians who were sitting on the side of the broken street , sipping their own glasses of tea .
18 A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills .
19 It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled .
20 We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime .
21 Mr Stevenson had been on holiday in Wales , and he had been exploring our beautiful mountains and valleys .
22 That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her .
23 It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together .
24 The Essex police had opposed bail , and he had been remanded in custody .
25 She had smiled on the new young courtier , and she had helped him , and he had been fascinated by her , for although she was ageing , there were still easily discernible traces of the famous beauty who had led armies into battle and lovers into bed ; who had brought Ireland to the brink of something so truly great that its fame would echo down the centuries .
26 There were a number of contacts to make , both in New York and on the West Coast ; Cadogan 's was thinking of expanding to San Francisco to take advantage of the considerable artistic activity out there , and he had been asked to spend a week in reconnoitring and reviewing possible sites .
27 His field was bio-improvements engineering , and he had been placed in charge of some hush-hush military project that had racked him up a rep as the Frankenstein of his generation .
28 In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task .
29 Sabine Jourdain had been shot , Barbara Coleman had been abducted , someone had tried to strangle Rain , the reception clerk and Cobalt had been beaten up , and Rain and he had been chased through a maze by a man with a ferocious determination on his face .
30 Erlich had offered to help them with anything they might shout for , and he had been turned down .
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