Example sentences of "[adj] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 2 | ‘ That 's how dependent he had been on her . ’ |
| 3 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 4 | The doctors did all that all he had was in the leg . |
| 5 | All he wanted was to be free . |
| 6 | All he wanted was for him to put out the cigarette ; he knew he would just go on suffering the strangled air . |
| 7 | Of their evening together , of how forthcoming he 'd been with his information . |
| 8 | He says all they did was just put it in for storage and then wait for the police to call but the first he heard was on Monday . |
| 9 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
| 10 | Since 1943 he had been in action with the 20th Indian Infantry Division . |
| 11 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 12 | How cruel he had been to her ! |
| 13 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 14 | Still , however difficult he had been in the good days , when they were all riding high , he was still most certainly loyal . |
| 15 | It was an ignoble , unworthy thought , he knew , but he was — now , anyway — only human , and therefore prey to human weaknesses , whatever sort of superhuman he 'd been during the War . |
| 16 | He reminisced how loyal he had been to his firm and how cruel he felt was his reward . |
| 17 | They had altered the street route system since last he 'd been in the place . |
| 18 | The picture ! — How eager he had been about the picture ! — and the charade ! — and an hundred other circumstances ; — how clearly they had seemed to point at Harriet . |