Example sentences of "he had [adv] [be] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had probably been worrying about his vocation . |
| 2 | He had evidently been popular with the medical students and a certain section of the nurses . |
| 3 | He had briefly been involved with the Logical Positivists of the Vienna Circle and developed a strong leaning toward the importance of systematic empirical observation as the cornerstone of the scientific method , and a corresponding dislike of abstracted theorising and metaphysical speculation . |
| 4 | By this time he was writing rather apologetically to Constanze , telling her that she must be more delighted to see him back in person than with any money he would be bringing in — he had even been obliged to lend his impecunious patron Prince Lichnowsky 100 gulden , a request he could hardly refuse … . |
| 5 | He had even been attentive , Yuri , and that was rare . |
| 6 | He had even been confident enough to order a celebration dinner at the White Hart Hotel in Aylesbury for that evening . |
| 7 | He had even been able to purloin half an hour of Basil 's time . |
| 8 | He had even been able to specify a little more precisely the area where he thought they were concealed . |
| 9 | Of Korean communists associated with Russia , the best known was Kim Il Sung but he had also been involved with the CCP . |
| 10 | Then he had also been astonished to find that some of Sheffield 's cutlery grinders earned from 18s ( 90p ) to £1 a week . |
| 11 | As Prime Minister he had mostly been popular and happy , although bearing heavily even the limited press of public work which his economy of effort prescribed . |
| 12 | He had finally been able to confirm what she had believed and prayed for these past six weeks . |
| 13 | Libby began to feel that he had not been real , but the tent was there , a packet of cigarettes on the rolled mattress , and the smell of smoke filled the airless canvas space , scents of sweat and soap , adult tainting . |
| 14 | The witness said that he had not been present at the meeting and had agreed that what was said then would not be recorded . |
| 15 | He had not been serious , and although she had thought herself in love with him at the time he had known that it would be a mistake for them to marry — even if Burun , who was her father , had been prepared to permit such a thing . |
| 16 | On visits to the golf course since his son 's death , Mr Allan said , he had not been impressed by the new safety fence or by the position of two new lifebelts near the quarry . |
| 17 | He had won in the maiden class , for those who have yet to win a prize , in 1975 , but he had not been successful since moving into the growers ' section . |
| 18 | What the authorities failed to realise was that in the few years since the war had ended , aircraft design had moved forward a long way , and there had been a rapid development of jet aircraft of which Tank had little or no real experience — he had not been involved in this critical new phase . |
| 19 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 20 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 21 | Graham Berry , the SAC 's director of finance , said he had not been involved in the decision . |
| 22 | If he had not been halfway to sleep he would have noticed that far from washing the make-up from her face she had taken the trouble to apply the eye shadow and lip-stick that her mother sent her from Moscow . |
| 23 | He had not got a result on the first case because he had not been sharp enough . |
| 24 | Clearly he had not been content to wait , and as she looked at the hard , handsome face she knew he was furiously angry , only good manners holding back the words that were obviously uppermost in his mind . |
| 25 | Not surprisingly he had not been happy as a Wesleyan . |
| 26 | And yet , unaccountably , he had not been happy with her . |
| 27 | He had not been clear whether or not he should attend the wedding ceremony . |
| 28 | He was still , tensed and alert on the sidling , startled horse ; but he had not been startled . |
| 29 | But , for once , he had not been concerned with his own pleasure . |
| 30 | He soon found , though , that he had not been eligible to join , having refused to join the top civil servants ' trade union which was then attempting to block a Foreign Office shake-up . |