Example sentences of "charles [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | What Charles craved was a return to classical architecture , to buildings that were sympathetic to their surroundings , that were well proportioned and sensitive to human feelings , and not purely functional . |
| 2 | Charles had been a bachelor for thirty-two years . |
| 3 | Charles had been moved early on by the plight of disadvantaged young people and much of his energy had gone into that . |
| 4 | It was a subject Charles had been actively concerned about for most of his adult life . |
| 5 | But BitC was an outfit with drive , enthusiasm , and a determination to make the sort of changes in society that Charles had been trying to make for years . |
| 6 | Prince Charles had been talking and gently agitating about the subject for many years . |
| 7 | Charles had been given a view of the plans some months before and had been appalled . |
| 8 | She said how right Peregrine was not to believe Charles had been killed . |
| 9 | He was even more of a Catholic fanatic than Charles had been , and under his rule , the persecutions against the Nonconformists were continued with greater vigour than ever . |
| 10 | ‘ Freesias ! ’ breathed Dimity with rapture , thinking how dreadfully extravagant dear Charles had been , and yet how delicious it was to have such treasures brought to her . |
| 11 | This took place 4 days after Charles had been discharged from hospital . |
| 12 | Ann had met an old boyfriend , and she and Charles had been able to discuss their feelings about this without animosity . |
| 13 | While Charles had been summoning the clans to Glenfillan Sir John Cope , 100 miles [ 160 km ] away , as the crow flew , in Edinburgh — though far further even by Wade 's splendid new roads — had been making his counter-preparations . |
| 14 | While Prince Charles had been capturing Perth and advancing on Edinburgh Castle Cope had led his main army east from Inverness to Aberdeen and then , making use of his superiority in seapower , had it shipped to Dunbar on the East Lothian coast , about 34 miles [ 54 km ] due east of Edinburgh . |
| 15 | While Charles had been withdrawing northward the sloop Prince Charles , formerly , until taken as a prize , His Majesty 's Ship Hazard , had been on its way to him from France with some Irish troops , arms and , most important of all , £13,600 in gold . |
| 16 | Some said Charles had been having an affair with an owner 's wife , others that he was involved in some gambling scam . |
| 17 | ‘ They are educated , as Prince Charles had been , with other boys at a boarding school and they find it impossible to deal with an hysterical woman . |
| 18 | Charles had been wounded in the fighting but had recovered and signed on as a regular at the end of the war . |
| 19 | This was the way Prince Charles had been reared and he wanted his boys to follow suit . |
| 20 | Charles had been particularly annoyed about the toothlessness , she could tell , although he tried to conceal it : he had in fact been without his two front teeth that week , while having their thirty-year-old caps replaced , caps that marked a heroic accident long ago in a swimming pool in Sevenoaks . |
| 21 | Charles had been directing at the time and cast him as Young Marlowe in She Stoops to Conquer . |
| 22 | There were no signs that Sir Charles had been murdered , but Dr Mortimer did not recognize his friend 's face . |
| 23 | She had been introduced to Norman Lamont ( very sexy ) and afterwards Charles had been wonderful , guiding her from cab to restaurant , steering her around the menu ( ‘ the salt cod is quite delicious ’ ) , plying her with Vinho Verde and a glass of Setubal . |
| 24 | After all , Frankish nobles were trained from youth , as Charles had been , to ride and to wield weapons , through hunting , wargames , and fights over property and honour in which , according to at least one contemporary canon lawyer 's opinion , killing was no sin . |
| 25 | Lothar 's supporters implicitly recognised this when they tried to postpone the battle 's political impact by spreading rumours that Charles had been killed and Louis wounded . |
| 26 | When last heard of Uncle Charles had been keeping a Malaysian girl less than half his.age in a Vancouver penthouse but George managed to recall some less interesting small-talk and like winged seeds the conversation spiralled delicately down to business . |
| 27 | Whatever personal problems she and Charles had were put to one side and they gave the people of Wales a visit to remember . |