Example sentences of "he [vb past] [ex0] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | How he lived there was not clear , |
| 2 | When the sister was summoned up and said it was her grave had been dug , he realised there was nothing more he could do and the whole thing was adjourned to the community centre for a couple of hours while big men with shovels rather grudgingly got to work . ’ |
| 3 | After a while , Corbett call ed a halt ; his horse was half-blown and he realised there was no sign of any pursuit . |
| 4 | When we sat down for our sandwiches , I made him go away with the grisly thing , but we could still hear him crunching away behind a rock — first a crunch then a cough as he swallowed a feather , then another crunch then more coughs until he realised there was no future in it and came round for a sandwich . |
| 5 | So he , he agreed there 's no |
| 6 | He agreed there was little in an anthropological vein and deplored the current lack of funding available for cultural or qualitative research into the semantics of policing . |
| 7 | He argued there were provisions in the Single European Act which ensured that member states could not be obliged to accept abortion services if they did not wish to have them . |
| 8 | He argued there was a need to go back to basic skills and more disciplined teaching , and announced that , within two years , schools inspection teams are to include non-educationists on each visit . |
| 9 | Why , even Peggy herself had been one of his targets — until he realized there was no chance for him there . |
| 10 | She was still some way behind her father 's horse , whom she saw her father checking as he realized there was no way through . |
| 11 | Once he had heard of Charlotte 's predicament , however — explained to him in a quiet corner of the Beau Nash Tavern , Mount Ephraim — he realized there was nothing else for it . |
| 12 | ‘ It was the first time that he realized there were officers and that they treat you badly because you 're not like them . |
| 13 | He revealed there were blackspots where reception was often poor . |
| 14 | But he found there was nothing academic about dealing with people and with the unions , because ‘ established institutions have their dogmas and their attitudes are frozen rigid . ’ |
| 15 | He found there was no real difference between Santiago marginals and those in higher strata in a cultural way , that is , they shared the same values and aspirations , but the squatters were unable to realise these because of structural features . |
| 16 | He found there was n't enough to eat on one . |
| 17 | He lost interest when he found there were no pictures . |
| 18 | He maintained there was only one way to resolve differences within the party leadership over Labour 's policy towards a privatised water industry : ‘ Take water back without compensation . ’ |
| 19 | When he came there were two safe sex posters and a drawing of a small child in a field of flowers . |
| 20 | About this time last year I think it was the same week he came there were five judges that he picked every year for fifteen years . |
| 21 | Also , strangely , he noted there was a similarity in the faces of the aunt and niece . |
| 22 | He noted there were the two schools ? |
| 23 | Hugh Gentleman , who conducted the research , said in his report that it was difficult to gauge precise numbers of New Age travellers — as opposed to traditional travellers — in Scotland , but he estimated there were about 60 households . |
| 24 | Though he noticed there were some who spoke to the superintendent and were completely ignored , while others looked as if they would have preferred to creep past unknown . |
| 25 | He noticed there were no lampshades on the lights , and that the mantelpiece was bare and the cushions without covers . |
| 26 | From this house-painter , he learnt there were other deaf people , and that there was a society in Leeds , so he went along to see for himself . |
| 27 | But he added there was some evidence suggesting it did not arrive before Moscow issued its condemnation of the US action . |
| 28 | TSB Direct managing director Philip Haynes said an all-singing all-dancing banking service , like Midland 's First Direct , could follow — but only when he believed there was something ‘ demonstrably better ’ about a direct bank account compared with a traditional branch-based account . |
| 29 | He believed there was not one problem of unemployment , but several , some of which were simply part of modern industry , while others could be cured by state intervention . |
| 30 | Some months after Wilson resigned from being prime minister , he admitted to two journalists that he believed there was a faction in DI5 sympathetic to the South African and Rhodesian authorities . |