Example sentences of "his [noun] [vb past] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He explained to the desk sergeant that he was worried that his sister had been murdered by her husband , Joseph Shill . |
| 2 | His sister had been to St Saviour 's . |
| 3 | And there were plenty of people who would be pleased to tell Councillor Evans that his sister had been seen in the Dog and Duck with an American soldier . |
| 4 | His sister had been restless and Dunbar had had to fight queues of people at the bar to buy drinks in the interval . |
| 5 | The child imitated the sipping movements his sister had been schooled by Tommaso to make at the cafe , like a small bird at a fountain . |
| 6 | His hope had been that she might have moved on before the word got around , no chance for gossip and so no awkwardness , but his sense of firm control in that area seemed to have slipped away from him . |
| 7 | Civilian breakdown organisations more used to recovering cars from the nearby A66 broke out in a sweat when businessman David Gresty told them where his truck had been ditched . |
| 8 | Nick had landed the job of editor and when he had told Harriet about it his enthusiasm had been infectious . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | Of all his kinsmen , it was hardly surprising that his favourite had been gay , great-uncle Edward — his father 's bête noire . |
| 11 | Like him , lying underneath that mini … his heart had been going overtime then , thinking of the law closing down on him . |
| 12 | In that instant it was as if some dam erected long ago around his heart had been breached . |
| 13 | His embalmed body was carried to Dunfermline for burial , but at his own request his heart had been removed by a trusted comrade-in-arms , Sir James Douglas , to be taken on Crusade . |
| 14 | For his heart had been taken by the sight of Neva , as hers with him , and he had followed her . |
| 15 | He took Ranulf 's hand , led him over to the gibbet and pushed his hand between the iron bars until the tips of his fingers touched the decaying flesh of the hanged man , just above where his heart had been . |
| 16 | Guy bent his dark head , and stepped closer , let his lips and tongue caress where his fingers had been . |
| 17 | A corporal at seven , captain at twenty-three and Major at twentyfive , his advancement had been deleteriously rapid . |
| 18 | When the blood haze was on him , he could not stop killing and might turn on his friends once his enemies had been slaughtered . |
| 19 | His last interview with a solicitor had been conducted in a language barely recognizable as English and it had taken over three hours and a reference to the Chief Constable to elicit the fact that the deceased had made a previous will in which the respective positions of his wife and his mistress had been exactly reversed . |
| 20 | His shirt had been ripped from his body and there were deep cuts across his back and under his arms . |
| 21 | His shirt had been as cleanly stripped from him as if he had never been wearing it , although his skin appeared uninjured . |
| 22 | Charles , who was in his late-thirties , found celibacy a trial ; his fancy had been caught by Amaranth Wilikins . |
| 23 | HARMONY IN MY HEAD Brian May I spoke to Brian May on the day the news broke that his guitar had been mistakenly despatched to France by a roadie , to await an uncertain fate at the hands of ‘ lost and found ’ … |
| 24 | He says that Mr Summerfield would be bemused by all the fuss — but would appreciate the way his money had been used . |
| 25 | Mr Whistle knew what his decision had been . |
| 26 | His decision had been triumphantly vindicated . |
| 27 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that although an adult patient was entitled to refuse consent to treatment irrespective of the wisdom of his decision , for such a refusal to be effective his doctors had to be satisfied that at the time of his refusal his capacity to decide had not been diminished by illness or medication or by false assumptions or misinformation , that his will had not been overborne by another 's influence and that his decision had been directed to the situation in which it had become relevant ; that where a patient 's refusal was not effective the doctors were free to treat him in accordance with their clinical judgment of his best interests ; that in all the circumstances , including T. 's mental and physical state when she signed the form , the pressure exerted on her by her mother and the misleading response to her inquiry as to alternative treatment , her refusal was not effective and the doctors were justified in treating her on the principle of necessity ; and that , accordingly , the judge 's order had been properly made ( post , pp. 786G–H , 795B–F , 796F–H , 797B–F , 798A–B , E–G , 799B–G , H — 800B , E–G , 803C–D , F — 804B , F–G , H — 805B , F ) . |
| 28 | Pöhl said that his decision had been made to give himself more time for his family and private interests and was prompted by " neither resignation nor frustration " . |
| 29 | Leszek Balcerowicz , the Finance Minister and deputy Prime Minister , announced on Aug. 5 that he would resign after the parliamentary elections planned for October , saying that his decision had been made for family reasons . |
| 30 | Zapata strenuously denied opposition claims that his election had been fraudulent and stated that he was standing down to avoid " endangering the possibilities of peaceful coexistence " with rival political forces in the state . |