Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 2 | The responsibility for the serious incident to which he referred was shared among several water authorities . |
| 3 | The antechamber which he entered was filled with silent N'pani . |
| 4 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 5 | His solicitor said for some reason he 'd been involved since last December in a campaign of total destruction of both himself and other people , but now there was some hope for the future . |
| 6 | Although he 'd been kept in secure accommodation 3 times in his life , he was now in a stable relationship with a new foster mother . |
| 7 | Maybe she 'd always had someone to look after her ; he 'd been living with darned socks and the stitch-in-time philosophy all his life , first his mother and then Margaret , who sorted her stockings out into ones she could wear to the office and ones which were only good for gardening . |
| 8 | Of course I 've sent specimens to Forensic but you can take it from me that he died of strychnine poisoning ; a fairly hefty dose but he 'd been living on borrowed time any way . |
| 9 | Did you know he 'd been convicted of drunken driving ? |
| 10 | He was n't wearing the suit he 'd been wearing in Furnival Gardens . |
| 11 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 12 | He 'd been driving for sixty years , you 've never had an accident . |
| 13 | He 'd been held for eleven days . |
| 14 | ‘ He 'd been held for four months . |
| 15 | If he 'd been cycling for fifteen hours , you you have a look and tell me how far he would have gone . |
| 16 | If he 'd been cycling for fourteen hours , let's say fifteen hours . |
| 17 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 18 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 19 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 20 | The first was some eight years ago when he 'd been accused of shoddy workmanship on a car which had been involved in a crash two days after he 'd MOTed it . |
| 21 | Oliffe 's job , according to his defence , was to fatten up animals over the winter , and this was the first time he 'd been accused of ill-treating animals . |
| 22 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 23 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 24 | His pelvis fractured and back broken , he 'd been hospitalized for eighteen months , was undergoing final therapy and still a lieutenant in the Finnish Air Force when , on June 25 , 1941 , Finland joined forces with Nazi Germany and declared war on Russia . |
| 25 | this chap was here last week he bought this pine table up , got his key , and he 'd been working for three years in Norway |
| 26 | An environmental activist prior to his appointment in 1990 [ see p. 37312 ] , Lutzemberger had been outspoken in his criticism of Brazilian institutions which he believed were contributing to environmental destruction , particularly that of the Amazon rainforest . |
| 27 | This continent seems to have been created by Augustus Le Plongeon for his 1896 novel Queen Moo and the Egyptian Sphynx , which he claimed was based on original Mayan writings — which writings , of course , just happened to be unavailable to other scholars . |
| 28 | He hated being exposed like this . |
| 29 | Not all the rooms he discovered were filled with strange objects . |
| 30 | Each item he retrieved was examined with great care , and he took the opportunity to do some elementary housekeeping by discarding unwanted minutiae of his life . |