Example sentences of "but he [verb] be [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had been easily outwitted in the tangled back streets of Paris . |
| 2 | But he had been utterly routed . |
| 3 | Enoch had mellowed , but he had been terribly hurt at losing his seat in 1987 . |
| 4 | Coffin wished he had observed Edward Pitt more closely on that evening , but he had been so taken up with Letty . |
| 5 | He had only one more room to do , he said , and he should have finished long before this but he 'd been badly delayed in the car on the other side of the dining car , which he had in his care also . |