Example sentences of "[vb past] he [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 4 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 5 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 6 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 9 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 10 | But there had been no spirit in him , the shock of what his father told him had been too great . |
| 11 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 12 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 13 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 14 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 15 | An outstanding example was provided by the GEC merger with English Electric in 1968 in which its promoter , Arnold Weinstock , firmly believed he had been helped by government support through the IRC . |
| 16 | In fact , I have no reason to think that Wilson wrote this or any other letter protesting against the establishment of a wide-ranging inquiry such as Denning believed he had been instructed to conduct . |
| 17 | He believed he had been booked in the corresponding match against Lithuania in Belfast last year — or possibly against Albania . |
| 18 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 19 | It seemed he had been sent no less than ten lords a leaping . |
| 20 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 21 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 22 | Endill learnt he had been in the army but was told to leave after forgetting who he was fighting for . |
| 23 | At least one assumed he had been watching the sky , there being little else to view from his small window other than roof-tiles and guttering . |
| 24 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 25 | In court he also stated he 'd been unaware the cannister , legal on the continent , was an offensive weapon in Britain . |
| 26 | On arriving home at lunch time Ron was confronted with the owner of the purloined petrol , who stated he had been advised to prosecute , but in view of them being ex POWs , he would take no action . |
| 27 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 28 | He looked tired and travel-weary and his first words confirmed he had been riding hard . |
| 29 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 30 | A post mortem showed he had been hit by five bullets and had also been struck by a number of shotgun pellets . |