Example sentences of "[pron] he [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 2 | He wanted to expand , so he went into partnership with someone he 'd been doing business with . |
| 3 | But he had been there — he had watched someone he loved being drawn deeper and deeper into the morass . |
| 4 | Despite himself he had been touched by her fierce defence of him , and although he frequently entertained Mrs Darrell he only did so because she was the widow of his dead friend . |
| 5 | As he describes himself he had been , during the nineties at Cambridge and afterwards , a rather worldly , flippant creature , erm but after this experience something changed within him , and he says , and I suppose , I think we must believe that it is true , that it was on account of this sort of moral mystical experience that his whole attitude to the world was changed , and he was provided with the peculiar moral strength to fight the battles , as he later did fight , against war and other such things . |
| 6 | On the other hand , by refraining from identifying himself he risked being bludgeoned or arrested . |
| 7 | The assemblage of lands which he ruled is traditionally called the Angevin Empire and the name is important . |
| 8 | The consultancy prospered , but some chemical processes which he developed were not successful commercially . |
| 9 | In 1941 her much-loved younger son Peter was lost at sea when the ship on which he served was torpedoed in mid-Atlantic ; she never recovered from this loss . |
| 10 | Tony Wedd discovered clumps in Wiltshire and Somerset which he thought were the remains of sacred groves , based on the presence of most of the trees described by Robert Graves as forming the Celtic tree alphabet and tree calendar , and which may be a significant guide to the presence of a grove . |
| 11 | As he compared the ‘ full rich life ’ of the old back-street cultures which he thought were being pitted and undermined by the ‘ canned entertainment and packeted provision ’ of the new pulp culture , Hoggart made no effort to disguise his contempt for this barren cultural wasteland — the pop songs , the crooners and the heart-throbs , the hairstyles and clothing , the espresso bars and milk bars which young people frequented , together with the ‘ sex in shiny packets ’ literature and the cacophony of juke-boxes and ‘ nickelodeons ’ . |
| 12 | All he could remember was that TOWs were shipped at some point ; that ‘ the price asked for the military was twelve million two ’ ; that the aircraft could turn round and abort the delivery if the hostages were not released , which he thought was ‘ a most unusual thing ’ ; and that it was definitely not ‘ the Khomeini ’ with whom he had been doing business . |
| 13 | He asked Mr Jotter who had picked the vowels and why they 'd chosen the letter ‘ u ’ instead of ‘ s ’ which he thought was a nicer shape . |
| 14 | The one drawback at speed seemed to be noise , which he thought was louder than in his own BMW 325i . |
| 15 | But erm police went to visit him again , and says erm you know that 's it , you know , you wo n't , wo n't , you wo n't even be needed to make a statement about where you found it , which he thought was a bit funny . |
| 16 | On his appointment , the wages were increased from £90,000 a year — which he thought was a poor salary — to £220,000 a year . |
| 17 | Newman died in 1890 after a career in which he had been successively the most influential thinker in the Church of England , and then in English Roman Catholicism . |
| 18 | The Governor returned to Port Stanley from which he had been expelled , and huge defence installations were then erected to prevent any further Argentine attacks , including a massive new airport at Port Stanley . |
| 19 | Fortes , however , when later reviewing the work of Morgan , handsomely acknowledges the extent to which he had been foreshadowed by Morgan [ Fortes , 1969 ] , first in terms of his analysis of the way these acephalus systems work , and secondly in his understanding of the way that the continuing existence of politically active descent groups poses a threat to the organization and stability of the State . |
| 20 | This was advice which he had been unable to fallow himself . |
| 21 | This insight had enabled Lewis to recover all the things in art and in life which he had been enjoying since imaginative awareness dawned . |
| 22 | First , there was a meeting in Whitehall of the Economic Planning Council , followed by the conference at Trinity College Dublin , at which he had been invited to speak on the subject of European investment . |
| 23 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 24 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 25 | When conflict between Ken McFaul , a founder member of the DUP and an ex-mayor of Carrickfergus , and other DUP members reached the point of McFaul being expelled from the Party ( and simultaneously resigning ) , he also left the Free Presbyterian Church of which he had been an elder . |
| 26 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 27 | I remember him telling me how over the years it was a role which he had been able to approach from many different standpoints . |
| 28 | But Arran did get his duchy of Châtelherault , worth 12,000 livres ( £1000 sterling ) per annum , in February 1549 ; and in June or July of that year , his half-brother John Abbot of Paisley was finally recognized as Beaton 's successor in the archbishopric of St Andrews , to which he had been provided in November 1547 . |
| 29 | After his death in the south of France , which he had been visiting almost annually since the 1870s , his body was brought back and some 60,000 people filed past the coffin . |
| 30 | Many forest landowners were in fact heavily amerced by Passelewe : in 1264 the Abbot of Bruern paid 500 marks for acquittance of all the trespasses of which he had been convicted at the Oxford Forest Eyre in 1245 . |