Example sentences of "he [vb past] be [vb pp] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 2 | The only other thing that you heard Sergeant say that some how at the briefing he 'd been given information that was likely to be in the master bedroom . |
| 3 | Erm in short Adam had been given erm lordship over the earth and all its creatures and with that he 'd been given lordship over all human beings and the kings of this earth have inherited that lordship , that dominion . |
| 4 | The Edwardian informed me recently that he 'd been appointed trade attaché in one of our Central American embassies . |
| 5 | ‘ He looks as if he 'd been made King of the Harem . ’ |
| 6 | He 'd been taken prisoner by the Japs , and had been shipped to Japan , and was working in a warehouse in the docks on the morning of 9 August , 1945 . |
| 7 | The magistrates were told that from Febrary this year , until early September , he 'd been caught shoplifting , he 'd attacked police , kicked a police car , stolen a handbag from a 70 year old woman who was now afraid to go out , and caused criminal damage . |
| 8 | With unsympathetic editors on the magazines he usually worked for , half of what he did was found fault with or refused . |
| 9 | The only kind of music he liked was sung music and of that he liked all sorts — opera , lieder , folk , country , rock , jazz , soul , the blues . |
| 10 | Mr Reenan , a former TSB branch boss in Abingdon , said he had been sent hate mail and would probably not use his £900 scanner again . |
| 11 | Sometimes he felt he had been made whole , delivered , in a kind of fantasy , by his very longing . |
| 12 | But Nuadu had returned ; he had been made whole by the Court Sorcerer , and he , also , had regained his Throne . |
| 13 | He had been made mayor by the Germans during the Occupation , and had in fact done his best for the villagers . |
| 14 | Previously he had been elected chairman of the Falkland Islands Committee because his determination to keep the Falklands British was such a boost to the morale of the islanders . |
| 15 | He had been elected floor leader in 1986 , a post which in the Netherlands political system was comparable to that of party leader . |
| 16 | He had been elected Treasurer of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and , as such , demonstrated the prime motive of his life — an unashamed love of money . |
| 17 | He took the decision soon after he had been elected Speaker in 1983 . |
| 18 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 19 | The eccentric Cantona jetted hastily back to France after being dropped from the side at QPR , although at the time the club claimed he had been given permission . |
| 20 | It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers . |
| 21 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 22 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 23 | On his last visit he had been given coffee . |
| 24 | Auriol , winner of the Monte Carlo rally , was disqualified in Sweden after officials said he had been given oil outside a technical help zone . |
| 25 | He had been given command of a cavalry brigade , a mere twelve hundred sabres , while men he thought less talented than himself commanded whole divisions . |
| 26 | He pointed to the sky and then to the clearing , to the path that led to the cabin where Sycorax lay , and Kit understood that he had been granted permission to remain three cycles of the moon . |
| 27 | The accused claimed that he had been granted permission by a supervisor to take scrap tyres from a certain firm . |
| 28 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 29 | He had done homage for Normandy and Anjou at Montmirail and he had been crowned King of England in 1170 . |
| 30 | And then later he had been bound apprentice to Ninereeds the Masteraccount , who in his grey-mindedness was everything that dragons were not , and there was no time for dreaming . |