Example sentences of "he [verb] [vb pp] it be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The capped level , or whatever we like to call it , is the criteria that has been established by the Secretary of State , and he has said it is five per cent beyond the standard spending level and he says if Councils spend beyond that then he is liable to introduce his capping legislation and |
| 2 | He 'd heard it was quite expensive to get in . |
| 3 | He 'd decided it was best to keep out of Stella 's way until he was actually at the field . |
| 4 | Obviously he 'd decided it was worth putting up with the foul-smelling smoke for the sake of picking Michael 's experienced brain . |
| 5 | He revealed that he 'd been intending to do an act at the Easter Fete but had abandoned it because he 'd decided it was a load of rubbish . |
| 6 | Recently , he 'd left them very much in her hands , but now , with her own departure looming , he 'd decided it was necessary to go through everything with her . |
| 7 | He fetched it in and he bunged it down and I said that 's not a twenty two , he said it is , so when he 'd gone it were only nineteen so I rung him up I says hey |
| 8 | He 'd said it was very big , too big , even with oil , even with Vaseline ; he 'd cried out when Jean-Paul pushed up him . |
| 9 | He 'd said it was a surrender to the inevitable because her actress-mother was the famous one and he kept getting called Mr Williams anyway . |
| 10 | He 'd said it was a natural voice , one that did n't have to be nursed or conserved or constantly disciplined . |
| 11 | Oh dear , and he 'd thought it was his own animal magnetism . |
| 12 | But you were n't aware she 'd , he 'd got it was you ? |
| 13 | When he had seen it being done by publicans a mallet and a stake had been used , but all he had was a rusty bracket . |
| 14 | He had heard so much about it from the Queen Mother — who as a child had been there every year — and from so many other people that he had felt it was a part of his education that was sorely lacking . |
| 15 | He insisted that he had and that the officer to whom he had dictated it was on duty controlling crowds outside the courtroom door . |
| 16 | Christopher Court , MP , had no difficulty in getting straight through on the telephone to Chief Superintendent Coffin once he had decided it was to him he wished to speak . |
| 17 | He had decided it was not a subject for honest men , and had gone on to history , where he had developed a real interest in local history and a talent for getting old working-class men and women talking about the customs and social conditions of their childhood . |
| 18 | Did not tradition relate how Saint James had three times attempted to ascend Massis , and on the third occasion been told by an angel that it was forbidden , but that the angel had given him a plank of wood from the Ark , and there where he had received it was founded the monastery of Saint James ? |
| 19 | He had said it was unwise to load up in villages because of thieves and dangerous to camp apart from each other because of bandits . |
| 20 | When he called them and turned smiling to her she realized why he had said it was a certainty . |
| 21 | Mr Paisley was out of the country yesterday but his son , Ian , said that , when his father first heard of the bequest , he had thought it was a hoax . |
| 22 | He had thought it was all over for the Bookman and that the acid had not worked . |
| 23 | For one brief moment he had thought it was Jenny , absurdly garbed and with a ridiculously short haircut . |
| 24 | Perhaps they had only lived in London because he had thought it was what she wanted . |
| 25 | He had thought it was Charity . |
| 26 | He despised them all anyway , especially Sylvester , because they had lost interest in the only good idea they had ever come up with — not , of course , at the time that he had admitted it was a good idea . |
| 27 | He had remembered it was nearly full with all the Christmas mail . |
| 28 | He had known it was her all along , of course . |
| 29 | He said even if he had known it was an aneurysm , it may have been totally inoperable and would have carried a mortality rate of 80% . |
| 30 | In only a few days , he had learned it was better to keep silent in that respect . |