Example sentences of "he [vb past] be [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The eloquent points he made were irrefutable . |
| 2 | Every movement he made was slow and deliberate , as if designed to conserve energy . |
| 3 | When he finally did so the impression he made was unforgettable . |
| 4 | Once upon a time , long ago , there was a rich merchant who thought that the city where he lived was full of bad people , and especially bad children . ’ |
| 5 | Durie was scheduled to fight an FA charge of misconduct after referee Dermot Gallagher alleged he feigned being head-butted in a confrontation with Andy Pearce in a game against Coventry on August 18 . |
| 6 | It seems to me that what we 're talking about here is Harrogate 's land allocation being , not necessarily an I five , but sixty hectares which he agreed was adequate for I five yesterday , plus I suspect another fifty which would be a strategic site . |
| 7 | The land he rode was marshy , forcing him to weave an intricate course past the more treacherous patches . |
| 8 | To shut his eyes as he rode was another . |
| 9 | His decision , since the madness of Doc Askins , to live without the emotions , was one that he realized was impossible . |
| 10 | The friendship with Isabella Stewart Gardner lasted a lifetime and the artist also acted as her adviser on purchasing art : among the works he recommended was Gentile Bellini 's ‘ Portrait of a Turkish scribe or painter ’ . |
| 11 | Apprentice boy , my mate he er our friend dead and gone , he 's a good turner that runs er er reels , yet erm that 's all he got was five shillings a week after er no seven year 's apprenticeship . |
| 12 | There are several illuminating aspects of the Brown experience : the early promise of educational attainment ; the not unreasonable anticipation of good qualifications ; the gradual intensification of involvement with sport ; and , crucially , the persuasive parts played by teachers and , to a slightly lesser extent coaches , in fostering an interest in sport , which he admitted was detrimental to his education . |
| 13 | Although the rectitude which he sought was personal rather than public , this did not mean that public rectitude , which had required that the vacancy at Canterbury should be filled as soon as possible , was excluded from consideration . |
| 14 | Every taxi-driver he encountered was polite , indeed charming . |
| 15 | One of the first things he found was that golf is not something that can be watched that closely . |
| 16 | He regarded being chief secretary , with its need to cut departmental spending throughout Government , as having been the toughest of the jobs ‘ in terms of sheer workload ’ . |
| 17 | He also on July 24 made remarks criticizing members of the UN Security Council for giving what he maintained was undue priority to the situation in Yugoslavia , which he described as a " war of the rich " . |
| 18 | Later , however , Thomas Cromwell was sympathetic to the Reformers ; indeed the policy which he pursued was that which Tyndale had advocated in The Obedience of a Christian Man — ‘ One King , one law in the realm : no class of men exempt from the temporal sword ’ . |
| 19 | Those to whom he referred were unlikely to believe that Mosley would stand between them and their destruction . |
| 20 | Incidentally , although Fei called his book Peasant Life in China , he made no pretence that the social system he described was typical for the whole country . |
| 21 | I think the word he used was irreplaceable , was n't it , Rob ? ’ |
| 22 | Although we can not go into the technicalities of Ohmann 's method , it is worth mentioning that the apparatus he used was that of an earlier version of Transformational Grammar , one which subsequently underwent profound modifications . " |
| 23 | The Criminal Law Revision Committee disagreed , recommending that a verdict of manslaughter should be possible where the use of some force was justified by the occasion and where D honestly believed that the force he used was reasonable in the circumstances . |
| 24 | But what 's more serious is that one of the phrases that he used was more people are going to suffer in cover . |
| 25 | The form of words that he used were these : ‘ Lord king , I do you homage for all the lands which I ought to hold from you ’ . |
| 26 | ‘ He stopped being friendly ? ’ |
| 27 | And , like a little child , he stopped being careful and tense for a moment and said what was in his head , quite simply . |
| 28 | Reading Roberts ' biography , one learns that the world he visited was violent : crossing the snows of the Chouf mountains , he was told that there were gunmen on the road to Baalbek — just as there are today . |
| 29 | The direct journey between the two towns he visited was further than that from London to Moscow . |
| 30 | ‘ Some of the balls he played were magnificent and that is something we have probably been missing a little bit this season . |