Example sentences of "he [verb] [pron] [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps he realised he 'd been rash . |
| 2 | He admitted he had been stupid , but said : ‘ They are too easily available and from my experience I think they should be banned . ’ |
| 3 | He says there 's been proper consultation with the local communities and the local authorities including the parish councils . |
| 4 | For some time it has had career breaks to help women ( and occasionally men ) with family needs and he says it has been successful . |
| 5 | When this experience passes and Paul regains a semblance of his former consciousness , he finds he has been stricken temporarily blind . |
| 6 | He did n't really care if she and Nick were happy or not but if he thought they had been happier at Druid 's Bottom than they were at his house , he might stop them going again . |
| 7 | He thought I had been economical with the truth . |
| 8 | Someone touched his elbow so timidly that he thought it had been accidental , until the gesture was repeated with more insistence . |
| 9 | ‘ I asked Rico , when he telephoned , how long he thought she 'd been dead . |
| 10 | Let it suffice for the present that he thought he 'd been silly to nurture romantic thoughts about his first love . |
| 11 | Ask Clint whether he feels it has been tough for his kids having a superstar dad and he looks cagey : ‘ Everyone worries about their kids . |
| 12 | When the Robemaker spoke again in his soft hissing voice , he knew he had been right . |
| 13 | As soon as he saw Pickerage he knew he had been right : here was a boy who had often gone for interviews in the headmaster 's study . |
| 14 | Lachlan was near heaving the shipmaster overboard , but he knew he 'd been wrong . |
| 15 | He knew he 'd been wrong about me . |
| 16 | Before they even touched he knew it had been wrong to come , he knew he had reopened a wound that would never heal and could never be soothed by consummation , unless the war should end soon and they should both survive . |
| 17 | He thought he would not care if she had in truth done so , although he knew it to have been unnecessary . |
| 18 | He says that he hopes they 've been able to reasure the people living nearby , and that the travellers will now quietly leave . |
| 19 | It was not until Aunt Kit rang me up , three days later , and abused me for ten minutes between tearing bouts of coughing , saying that I had hurt ‘ poor Lil ’ quite unbearably , that he said I had been wrong to write it . |
| 20 | He said he had been right to prevent the earlier attempt to censure Mr Gilbert . |
| 21 | He said he had been aware of the consequences when he picked Mr Jackson a few weeks ago . |
| 22 | He said he had been unable to take it in moderation , and then , in a long illness , he was forbidden liquor , so when the habit had been broken he never returned to it . |
| 23 | He said he had been scared to tell the truth after a series of threats from one of the gang . |
| 24 | He said he had been ill and had forgotten the court date . |
| 25 | ‘ Dave rang me , see , and he said there 'd been some blokes asking around about me and he did n't think they were coppers at all , and I thought well , that could be The Firm — |
| 26 | He said there had been sufficient time to bring an action , and awarded costs against the parents . |
| 27 | He said it had been vital to keep Operation Beehive secret from the Soviets and the Yugoslavs , so many people within V Corps had not known about it . |
| 28 | He admits he had been cheeky . |
| 29 | He wished he had been kinder to her and kissed her once at least . |
| 30 | Little Billy wondered whether this was a secret meeting place of all the swans of the world , and he wished he had been able to ask Swan this question as well . |