Example sentences of "he be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been followed ? |
| 2 | Well , maybe they were n't his exact words , but I expect he would have come up with something like that had he been asked for his thoughts on Carter 's ‘ Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ . |
| 3 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
| 4 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 5 | Had he been interned until the end of the war in Tost or one of the other civilian camps , he would probably have faced no charges . |
| 6 | He said he would have done considerably better had he been granted anything approaching equal access to the media and had tricks not been played against him . |
| 7 | Had he been charged with the more serious offence of causing death by reckless driving , he would have faced a Crown court and a jail sentence of up to five years . |
| 8 | And now you can ask I can sort of ask you questions on it like if he 's been travelling for let's say If he 's if he 's covered sixty miles how long has he been riding for ? |
| 9 | Okay erm If he 's done two hundred miles , how long has he been riding for ? |
| 10 | Why had n't he been given a medal ? |
| 11 | The streetwise young black would have done just that , had he been given the chance . |
| 12 | Had he been expressing his doubts about her to Matt ? |
| 13 | Had he been shot ? |
| 14 | As he followed her from the room , he said , ‘ Has he been using any new chemicals ? ’ |
| 15 | Why had n't he been called earlier ? |
| 16 | Only in his more recent work The Power of the Center , published in 1988 , has he been looking from art to the resources offered by psychology . |
| 17 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 18 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 19 | For Charles it may have meant political survival , for perhaps he really would have been tonsured had he been defeated . |
| 20 | ‘ But on a point of handicapping , why has he been raised 4lb after finishing second in the Mackeson , while Desert Orchid has been dropped 2lb for finishing second to Long Engagement ? ’ |
| 21 | In United 's progress to the top of the First Division and to tomorrow 's final , Schmeichel has kept 23 clean sheets and on only five occasions has he been beaten more than once . |
| 22 | What had he been trying to tell her ? |
| 23 | At such times you need to turn to a wise and experienced adviser who might well have steered you clear of the mistake had he been consulted earlier . |
| 24 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 25 | Andrew Hall 's back in the limelight now that the BBC is showing re-runs of Butterflies — but where has he been hiding and what has he been up to all this time ? |
| 26 | It was a brutal place , which Paul would have avoided had he been thinking clearly ; but his mind was far away . |
| 27 | What had he been thinking about ? |
| 28 | Had he been facing any of the big cat family , with their formidable armoury of fang , claw , power and speed , he would , for all his martial arts training , have been in with very little chance of survival , let alone victory . |
| 29 | Had he been watching the others , before he took his own spoonful ? |
| 30 | In April 1816 , musing after John Brownrigg 's death , he says he might have thought differently of him had he been born in Ambleside , ‘ the moral code of the people here not being like that of many other places . ’ |