Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He must have wished he had been there , protected by the Pinkerton security guards employed here , earlier in the week when a messenger arrived at the course to serve a paternity suit . |
| 2 | Indeed , the injured man did not even know he had been bitten until the water turned red as he swam to shore . |
| 3 | But in Harding v Price [ 1948 ] 1 All ER 283 it was held that if the driver did not know he had been involved in an accident the section did not apply . |
| 4 | I did n't know he had been killed . |
| 5 | She would recognise him when he made his approach , would know he had been behaving deviously but he would be straight into devious matters anyway . |
| 6 | Strong hints about his IRA sympathies , as if everyone did n't know he 'd been a self-proclaimed Sinn Feinner since he was a youngster . |
| 7 | Did you know he 'd been convicted of drunken driving ? |
| 8 | Although Colin , Colin rang last night , I did n't even know he 'd been ! |
| 9 | Any failure to press the Bat switch while the Bat diode D9 is momentarily lit results in a low output from transistor TR4 and the ball moves on to the wicket l.e.d. where it stays to let the batsman know he has been bowled out . |
| 10 | Madam Speaker has the lord president of the council noticed the response of Mr Reynolds and to Miss Mary Harney 's question what representations has he had been made to United States over Gerry Adams ' visit . |
| 11 | A former Birmingham police officer , Finnegan was set to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a National Front organiser . |
| 12 | Mr Finnegan was to stand as Tory candidate for Stockton South at the 1983 general election but withdrew when it was disclosed he had been a member of an extreme right-wing party . |
| 13 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 14 | After coaxing him for 20 minutes , one officer grabbed the man — only to discover he had been bleeding heavily from deep cuts to his wrist and arms . |
| 15 | Charles Henstock , whose belief in an after-life was absolute , had never been able to persuade his old friend to share his convictions , and he had once told Donald , after an amicable exchange of views on the subject , that he considered the doctor to be the finest unbeliever he had been privileged to meet . |
| 16 | At the age of 77 he still trains regularly , keeping fit he says was the best part of his career . |
| 17 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 18 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 19 | He remembered the chapel of St John and wondered what lies he had been told there . |
| 20 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 21 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 22 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 23 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 24 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 25 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 26 | But as a fiercely-contested clash ended in a 2-1 defeat , sealed by substitute Mark Walters in a thrilling finale , he found he has been replaced by his successor Graeme Souness as king in the affections of the Anfield faithful . |
| 27 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 28 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 29 | It also emerged that Keith hated his nursery teacher to know he had been naughty and that he did not like any form of physical restraint . |
| 30 | Pavel Penkin is the strike leader , what farmers want he says is a massive injection of state investment to enable them to compete in the new free market and improve their lot . |