Example sentences of "be [adj] [conj] he [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Applying Phipps he would have been guilty if he had drove to the agreed destination and then driven to his true destination . |
| 2 | David had been right when he 'd said that Rachel knew the whereabouts of Brooklands , for she had been there with her parents and her sister shortly after David and Jennifer 's engagement had been announced . |
| 3 | He 'd been right when he 'd said she was shrewish , though she 'd never suffered from the malady before . |
| 4 | He had been right when he 'd said there was no future — because the past would always exist . |
| 5 | This he was entitled to do , but the fact that he did it aroused Congress to the realization that Gandhi had been right when he announced upon his retirement that India was still a prison , but now the superintendent was allowing the prisoners to elect the officials who ran the jail . |
| 6 | He 'd been right when he told Alison that he was n't overlooked , because he could only see a narrow slice of his lounge from here ; but when he got down on his hands and knees and peered through the wrought ironwork the angle improved and he could see almost half of the room . |
| 7 | Bigwig had been right when he said the line was fresh . |
| 8 | The Victorian historian Macaulay may well have been right when he stated that the Cornish , ‘ … a fierce , bold and athletic race , among whom there was a stronger provincial feeling than in any other part of the realm ’ , were not so much concerned with the matter of religious principle on which Bishop Trelawney had made his stand ; Trelawney was ‘ … reverenced less as a ruler of the Church than as the head of an honourable house and the heir , through twenty descents , of ancestors who had been of great note before the Normans had set foot on English ground ’ . |
| 9 | The home bowler of the series was Colin Croft with twenty-four wickets at under 19 , and few English batsmen will have been sorry that he played in only two rubbers against them . |
| 10 | The porter who rang up to Mrs. Banks and directed Charles to her flat was also no doubt expensive , and would have been discreet if he had refrained from accompanying his directions with a wink . |
| 11 | Our happiness would have been complete if he had been here . |
| 12 | Personally , I would mind , as Gary has been crap since he came back from injury . |
| 13 | So we 've been up for some time cos the arms are wet where he 'd been sucking it ! |
| 14 | After impetuously hijacking the tapes of a feature on trade unions which C4 's nervous bigwigs wanted cut , he did n't make another appearance on the show , and it has never been clear whether he jumped or was pushed . |
| 15 | Either the branch had been rotten or he had missed his aim . |
| 16 | When Harry had kissed Cora-Beth goodbye in Kentucky a week ago , he had been convinced that he loved her . |
| 17 | ‘ Neil has been tremendous since he came back here and anyone at Saturday 's game will have seen many incidents where Neil in fact stopped trouble developing . |
| 18 | The young man 's intentions had been honourable and he had asked his father to obtain her as a bride . |
| 19 | As a user and devotee of Wainwright 's books , I am convinced that he wrote them primarily as works of creative art , for sharing with those of like mind . |
| 20 | Nocenzi had been conscious when he 'd seen him . |
| 21 | But it would have been costly because he 'd worked at the paper for so long . |
| 22 | As a white millionaire Republican from the leafy groves well to the south of the city limits , it would have been remarkable if he had not . |
| 23 | In retrospect I am glad that he did . ’ |
| 24 | I am glad that he did answer it , as I wanted to ask him this : has he learnt any lessons from the report , particularly those related to ability streaming ? |
| 25 | He had certainly not been confident when he arrived in Augusta and in the end his suspicions about his form were confirmed . |
| 26 | Nigger was on leave from the navy and had been impressed as he watched Yanto hit a drunken sailor who had tried to grope a young girl . |
| 27 | Arthur Conway had been married before he met her mother . |
| 28 | He was unable to tell Mr Gannon 's family how long the infection had been present but he believed the infection had spread through Mr Gannon 's blood rather than through any internal rupture . |
| 29 | The last act had been unsatisfactory and he wanted to provide a more effective resolution ; he was also concerned that he might have gone too far in removing the " poetry " from his dramatic verse . |
| 30 | I am sure that he saw the depressing report in The Sunday Telegraph that , with its customary foresight and thoughtfulness , the Treasury had decided to reject the Thameslink project . |