Example sentences of "[vb past] [vb pp] he [was/were] [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd decided he was most likely an agronomist attached to an Antarctic survey team . |
| 2 | Michael Heseltine was keen to demonstrate his fitness after the heart attack he suffered in Italy in summer … but he 'd decided he was n't strong enough to speak . |
| 3 | The centre-piece was a perspiring bloke who was plainly at the end of his tether and at the other end of the tatty tether was a huge hairy bundle who 'd decided he was now one of the family and acting in a suitably demented manner ; noise effects included whoops , cheers , shrieks , curses , admonitions and deep explosive barks which provided punctuation in the manner of the cannon fire in the 1812 Overture . |
| 4 | She 'd hoped he was too young . |
| 5 | When she had n't heard from him she 'd presumed he was n't keen . |
| 6 | From Tom Lofthouse I had heard he was not popular in the Doctors ' House , yet , conversely and amazingly to anyone who had been his junior , our Dr Jones rated as a favourite pin-up in the Staff Nurse 's Home . |
| 7 | The answers Caro wished she had given him were still boiling and bubbling inside her . |
| 8 | Mr Stone had said he was not available . |
| 9 | He shuffled a bit at that , shrinking into his green trenchcoat which someone had told him was yuppily fashionable . |
| 10 | ‘ He slept like a log and when he got up in the morning and saw the car had gone he was very upset , ’ said a source . |
| 11 | ( Jane had deduced he was somewhat superficial . ) |
| 12 | She had n't told him in the beginning because it was totally unimportant to her — her family was not religious — and then , after they had been married a while and she had discovered he was extremely intolerant about various classes of people — not Jews , in fact , but Negroes and Catholics — she had been afraid to tell him in case he should think she had deliberately concealed her origins because she had not trusted him . |