Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [adj] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | it was in here it was sort of like , he 'd been niggly all day , he was tired , he sort of like knocked it over with his foot , and of course it went straight over the dry nappy that was laid out on the floor ready to put under him , I said oh that nappy |
| 2 | Unless he 'd been asleep all the time ? |
| 3 | Simon was convinced , or persuaded himself , that he 'd been ill used by Constanza , that their marriage had been a mistake , a youthful mistake , the kind of thing one did in a war . |
| 4 | First , from way back in his Edinburgh days and his apprenticeship to Robert Grant in invertebrate zoology , he had been much pre-occupied with comprehensive generalizations about sexual and asexual modes of generation ( Sloan , personal communication ) . |
| 5 | He had simply been angry and believed that it meant he had been right all the time and that his sister really was in Hepzibah 's Power . |
| 6 | After all , he was a serving liaison officer between the CIA and the White House , even if he had been little more than a sleeper for several years . |
| 7 | He had been little more than a boy then . |
| 8 | He had been Liberal Unionist Chief Whip , with Joseph Chamberlain at the Colonial Office , First Lord of the Admiralty , Milner 's successor in South Africa , and a ditcher over the House of Lords . |
| 9 | He had been first away , for he was not one to linger with colleagues . |
| 10 | Gladly , willingly , he accepted and he again became a familiar figure at our ground as he had been all those years before . |
| 11 | He had been later surprised to learn , from reading intelligence reports , that the programme had been developed without his knowledge . |
| 12 | He had been Senior British Officer in command of the prisoners in the orphanage and he had received considerable help from the people of Fontanellato ; eventually he had been helped to reach Switzerland , Now , suddenly , a few months before the date we had settled on for our marriage , he began to worry about the idea of one of his officers ( who made no claims to any sort of upper-class lineage ) marrying the daughter of a village schoolmaster . |
| 13 | She said : ‘ If he had been any shorter he would not have survived . ’ |
| 14 | And ten years ago he had been hurt worst of all when the Zionist Air Force , the E-16s and the E-15s , had come to Tuwaithah out of the setting sun to put down 16 tons of explosive ordnance onto the Osirak reactor . |
| 15 | He had been wakeful all night , gnawing over and over the tangle of his doubts and fears , and unable to worry his way through them to any certain hope . |