Example sentences of "what he had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | In between these demonstrations of loyalty and discipline under fire he had said nothing to clarify the Government 's policy for combating inflation other than that there was no alternative to what he had been doing . |
| 2 | He was n't shocked by what he had been told ; he was astonished that it should have been said to him by his own daughter . |
| 3 | McLeish gritted his teeth , and , trying not to consider the implications of what he had been told . |
| 4 | As the minority population became more vociferous in its demands and more openly nationalist and republican , the stature of Paisley in the loyalist camp was proportionately increased because Protestants looked back at what he had been saying in the early days of O'Neill 's reign and saw that ‘ he had been right all along ’ . |
| 5 | In June , Roland found what he had been looking for . |
| 6 | But after a while his father stopped him to say he was not singing what he had been taught . |
| 7 | In his paper , Beveridge repeated what he had been saying for some time , namely , that there was no general breakdown of the labour-market , instead there was an overstocking of individual trades which was due to ‘ inadequate labour information and local hindrances to labour mobility ’ . |
| 8 | Hugo looked even more tired and strained than he had earlier , Harriet thought , and Sally was edgy and preoccupied though she seemed greatly relieved when Hugo told her that the insurance investigator , Tom O'Neill , had seemed satisfied with what he had been able to tell him and had not expressed any desire for a further interview or the need to come to the house to speak to Sally . |
| 9 | Nicholas looked at what he had been doing , which was nothing very much , and laid down the stone and the knife and , clasping his knees , looked at Diniz . |
| 10 | He joined the church 's prayer for boldness to do exactly what he had been told by the authorities not to do . |
| 11 | Satisfied that he had done what he had been instructed , the young American walked back down to Bayswater Road and soon hailed a cab for Heathrow . |
| 12 | We scattered Billy 's ashes from an outcrop on the Bwlch Main ridge , which for me now will always be Billy 's rock , and I remembered what he had been — the irreverence , the energy , the humour and essential contradictory humility of the man . |
| 13 | Thus , when Dennis offered him exactly half what he had been making , Lauda thought he 'd had a touch of sun . |
| 14 | In contrast to what he had been fearing , it was a trivial matter . |
| 15 | That was just what he had been . |
| 16 | As he took an eager gulp from his glass , he decided that Hank ought to tell his mother what he had been doing . |
| 17 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |
| 18 | He knew now what had been worrying Darren , what he had been concealing . |
| 19 | ‘ If you think — ’ Coleby thought better of what he had been going to say . |
| 20 | The books and papers were wrapped in a silk cloth and , smiling , Craig knew he had found what he had been looking for . |
| 21 | A few smashed windows , drink , a fight or two , umpteen girls almost ‘ conquered ’ , long tall stories almost believed — but compared with what he had been used to it was the lure of the Orient , freedom , the cry of the Sirens . |
| 22 | It was robust at times , but there was never anything kinky about our relationship ’ and that she did not think he was capable of what he had been accused . |
| 23 | His teaching after the resurrection , when " beginning with Moses and all the prophets , he interpreted to them in all the scriptures the things concerning himself " , was the climax of what he had been teaching them through the years of his ministry . |
| 24 | This is precisely what he had been attempting in " The Dry Salvages " , for example , and it is significant that he used much the same phrase in his demand that contemporary poetry should have such a strong relationship to current speech that " the listener or reader can say " that is how I should talk if I could talk poetry " . |
| 25 | He looked at his eyes and his ears and his teeth and his droppings and the ends of his claws and he inquired what he had been eating . |
| 26 | In her disappointment Chesarynth missed what he had been saying . |
| 27 | It was what he had been waiting for . |
| 28 | And he listened , he would n't really say what he had been doing , but later he showed me some of the things he 'd done in the Hebrides . |
| 29 | She was able to let him go as he was now because she had clarified and confirmed what he had been to her . |
| 30 | It was only that none of this was quite what he had been used to . |