Example sentences of "[adv] [conj] he [verb] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 2 | And it had been there , about twenty minutes later , that Thiercelin had received his wound ; a shell splinter in the cheek , which looked worse than it was , bleeding profusely into his collar and tunic , so that he had been ordered back to the chateau to have it dressed . |
| 3 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 4 | Recently it broke down and he has been told that it could cost up to £400 to get him mobile again . |
| 5 | ‘ Only if he 's been murdered , ’ said Milton . |
| 6 | Rostov knew that the Simonova was underway only because he had been advised of the fact by the voder of the ship 's information system . |
| 7 | We regard it as almost unthinkable that Parliament should have authorised the Serious Fraud Office to continue the exercise of inquisitorial powers against the accused not merely after he had been charged but also ( as Mr. Pleming accepts and asserts ) throughout his trial . |
| 8 | What I am trying to do is identify genetic potential long before the birth of the infant , and therefore long before he has been affected by his environment . |
| 9 | Germany 's captain Nikki Pilic , who had barely put the debacle surrounding Germany 's Olympic nominations behind him , came in for criticism for not resting Becker from the second day 's doubles , especially after he had been forced to play himself into the ground to beat Luis Mattar over five sets in exhausting heat on the first day . |
| 10 | MUCH AS he has been donning the hornrimmed glasses and adopting his Clark Kent persona of late , Curtly Ambrose has few equals when it comes to persuading a cricket ball to move faster than a speeding bullet or leap tall batsmen in a single bound . |
| 11 | The dean in his address expressed his pleasure in installing the new mayor , especially as he had been asked to serve as his chaplain during the mayor 's year of office . |
| 12 | ‘ Words just ca n't express how I feel about the man who did this — especially as he had been drinking . |
| 13 | Especially as he has been getting a rough deal from some sections of the crowd . |
| 14 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 15 | Only when he 's been drinking he just — he — ’ |
| 16 | Peskova took her up to the top room — the big room beneath the eaves- and locked her in as he had been told to . |
| 17 | so as he 'd been trying to get through it was always engaged . |
| 18 | I have been following with interest the Gardeners ' World programmes where Nigel Colborn had been designing a new garden , especially when he had been using plants for the shady corner . |
| 19 | In June , he told Puchberg bitterly that he had been forced to give away his ‘ Prussian ’ quartets for a song , just in order to have enough cash to meet his present obligations . |
| 20 | It 's just that he 's been used to having his own way for so long it does n't occur to him there are perspectives alternative to his own . ’ |
| 21 | Not that he had been to work on a Sunday for several years , but that was how he remembered it . |
| 22 | A prime minister might generally be considered the best candidate , but not if he has been dubbed ‘ the butcher of Beijing ’ . |
| 23 | He wo n't go away until he 's been paid . |
| 24 | This entitles him to refuse to hand them over until he has been repaid the money repayable to him . |
| 25 | I think he was an Aberdonian really the way he spoke anyway but he 'd been brought up in Blair Gowrie . |
| 26 | That 's why your father rode home in the carriage , not because he 'd been drinking , as people thought . ’ |
| 27 | Not because he 'd been provoked or excited ; on the contrary , it had happened because he 'd allowed himself to relax , to lessen his control and to become open and vulnerable . |
| 28 | The Russian race , on which the competitors were accommodated on a train following the race route , proved to be a harrowing experience for Zarei , but not because he had been doing too much running . |
| 29 | Sinclair did buy the Observer and the Pall Mall in the end , but not before he had been given a $45,000 guarantee from party funds . |
| 30 | He took the decision soon after he had been elected Speaker in 1983 . |