Example sentences of "he [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | During his final years he extensively revised , rewrote and rearranged his poems , especially The Prelude , and although the changes he made are not always improvements , they add up to the formation of the definitive text of the poems , so that many lines and phrases which we think of as unmistakably Wordsworth date from these latter years . |
| 2 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 3 | But I am certain that the mistake he made is somehow lodged in your stories . |
| 4 | The eloquent points he made were irrefutable . |
| 5 | But the points he made were chiefly concerned with moral questions affecting the status of divorce , on which he had strong views : whereas I had been occupied more with the Baldwin government and its apparent wish to stifle certain political views , especially concerning unemployment , to which the King had given expression . |
| 6 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 7 | Every move he made was duplicated by the rest of the shoal at exactly the same speed and with absolute precision . |
| 8 | Among the points he made was the fact that the cost of immunising a child was 7s.6d. , against thirty times that amount for treating him in hospital . |
| 9 | Almost any statement he made was punctuated with ‘ What do you think ? ’ or ‘ I 'd like your opinion on that . ’ |
| 10 | Every movement he made was slow and deliberate , as if designed to conserve energy . |
| 11 | When he finally did so the impression he made was unforgettable . |
| 12 | The small bow he made was all she needed . |
| 13 | The statement he made was , you say you 've got witnesses but none of them will give evidence against me . |
| 14 | Joseph Rank had his first mill in Sproatley and the house where he lived is still outwardly the same , but the mill foundation was removed about 20 years ago when a modern housing estate was built . |
| 15 | Reaction against him , in the predominantly Roman Catholic island , grew until , on 9 August 1846 , the quinta where he lived was surrounded and attacked by a large crowd of people . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He sat down on a sofa which he realised was slightly longer than his cubicle in the lodging house . |
| 19 | A bundle which , as he drew closer , he realised was a person . |
| 20 | He heard her whistling to the radio beyond the half-closed door of what he presumed was her bedroom , and there was another door that could have led to the living-room . |
| 21 | All the other experience that he devoured was put to the one obsessing activity . |
| 22 | The only sounds he registered were the faint rumblings of hangar doors and the occasional roar of powerful engines as his fellow-pilots tested their jets . |
| 23 | The assemblage of lands which he ruled is traditionally called the Angevin Empire and the name is important . |
| 24 | The proofs which he produced were so convincing that to keep him quiet he was first made Bishop of Exeter and then , when he complained that the diocese 's revenues were inadequate for his family , Bishop of Worcester . |
| 25 | What he produced was a gen-u-ine statement of skin ; a document to be placed alongside other such documents , delivered with the same How's-your-father flourish as a graffiti slogan on a council estate wall or a boot planted through an Asian 's shop window or a gallon of petrol poured through the letterbox of a Bengali family 's home . |
| 26 | What he produced was a volume for which he really should have kept his title The Conduct of the Kitchen — a title borrowed incidentally from Meredith — because that was just what the book of menus was about : the logical and orderly conduct of a kitchen as related to daily life and seen not through the medium of a few isolated menus for special occasions , but as part of the natural order of everyday living . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had decreed everyone should wear tartan shoes and since no-one had any , or could get any being stuck on the island , every pupil he met was punished for breaking the law . |
| 29 | McKenzie was urged to play a season with the Randwick Colts ( under-20 ) and the first player he met was a burly hooker called Kearns , who like Farr-Jones , was unable to win a first XV team berth at prestigious Newington College . |
| 30 | But the only person he met was Balor , on his daily forage to the wine store during the Gruagach 's afternoon snooze , to replenish his secret stock of ale and mead , which had been sadly depleted with all these unexpected visitors to Tara . |