Example sentences of "[adv] his [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | For the last quarter of an hour or so his face had been furrowed with the effort of understanding the information with which he had been presented . |
| 2 | He too , it seemed in his more envious moments , could easily have become an officer and a gentleman , if only his father had been as wealthy as Dysart 's , if only he had applied himself to his studies at Commonweal , if only … . |
| 3 | Meanwhile his Countess had been rescued from a Liddesdale cottage ‘ not to be compared to any dog kennel in England ’ by the chivalrous Kerr of Ferniehirst , in spite of past feuds with her husband 's family . |
| 4 | He had no doubts that the androids would kill him once his crime had been discovered . |
| 5 | In the late sixties he had declared ‘ Couture is dead ! ’ and concentrated instead on off-the-peg designer wear , but twenty years later his revival had been both stunning and nostalgic and the long-term wealthy and the nouveau riche had come flocking , craving the glamour and excitement , and seeking the prestige that comes from owning a couture gown , specially , individually theirs after hours of masochistic fittings . |
| 6 | Mr Jackson said Cardow had been injured and later his face had been slashed by friends of the dead man . |
| 7 | And now his work had been destroyed ! |
| 8 | But now his throne had been airily usurped by the taxman . |
| 9 | Until now his ships had been on a southerly course , the weather becoming even colder , the unexpected winds known now as williwaws threatening to dash his vessels against the steep cliffs . |
| 10 | It had been long since he had asked her mother to share his bed , and for some time now his favourite had been a young Khabiri concubine , a month younger than she was herself . |
| 11 | Harley was coming into it as an early-season form horse and was therefore in the news , and now his caddie had been murdered so he was very much in the news . |
| 12 | Up until a couple of years ago his name had been Peter Manstead . |
| 13 | The policeman was grieving for his Scotch terrier , while the dragoman — a fellow with big , prominent eyes like a lobster 's — had proved singularly incompetent throughout the trip ; even his cooking had been a failure . |
| 14 | Even his colleagues had been alarmed by James Harding 's confused state of mind , and had persuaded him to seek medical help . |
| 15 | The DUP was the only party to refuse to meet the four-man US delegation during its Irish visit , and justice spokesman Ian Paisley Jnr insisted today his party had been vindicated . |
| 16 | Haymo refused to be part of the deputation and the events that followed proved how right his warning had been . |
| 17 | I guess Colonel Goreng would rather his wife had been less unconventional . |
| 18 | Maybe his story had been , in God 's plan , an evangelica praeparatio : a clearing of the ground for the good seed of the Gospel . |
| 19 | He was a vassal , as indeed his father had been forty years earlier . |
| 20 | Instead his day had been spent indulging the Colonel 's passion for cricket . |
| 21 | A few months previously his name had been included in a list of men aged between eighteen and forty-five who were liable for militia duty if the awful day ever dawned when Napoleon landed on the south coast . |
| 22 | Or else his handicap had been rather less than she had reckoned . |
| 23 | Recently his complaints had been more and more concerned with his wife : he had even asked the doctor to ‘ tell Susie ’ to give up her job and stay at home . |