Example sentences of "he [vb past] be [verb] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 2 | Back on his farm a few miles from a crash site , Mr Hayton said he 'd been expecting a longer sentence . |
| 3 | He 'd been lent an old relegated rod with two mottled bamboo sections and a greenheart tip , a plastic centre-pin reel and a yellowed quill float . |
| 4 | She guessed that Mike Booker would be calling curses down on her head because he 'd been hoping a one-two win at Estoril would clinch the constructors ' championship for Carlisle Flint , quite apart from putting Ace into an unbeatable lead . |
| 5 | He 'd been offered a second chance of salvation . |
| 6 | Clearly he 'd been having a bad time of it . |
| 7 | The approach he took was to develop a Virtual Processor — a 32-bit machine with 16 registers and support for standard data types and addressing modes , which did n't actually exist . |
| 8 | The approach he took was to develop a Virtual Processor — a 32-bit machine with 16 registers and support for standard data types and addressing modes , which did n't actually exist . |
| 9 | One of the first things he did was to activate a small probe , with which he scanned his surroundings . |
| 10 | This must have been in the two years between the autumn or summer of 1187 , when he left Paris , and September 1189 , by which time he had been created a cardinal deacon by his relative , Pope Clement III . |
| 11 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 12 | He had been receiving an extraordinary number of new birds from Elizabeth 's brothers , Stephen and Charles Coxen , who had emigrated to Australia some years before . |
| 13 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
| 14 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
| 15 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 16 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 17 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 18 | Harbury surmised that he had more reason than anybody : he had been severely demoted , he had been given a rough time and he was partly responsible for Martin Ayling selling to MacQuillan . |
| 19 | A few days ago , some hooligan or other walked into our bedroom , mine and Jane 's — and lifted " Suddenly , as the thought struck him , he jerked back in his chair , as if he had been given a minor electric shock , and stared at Alice , his jaw literally dropping . |
| 20 | He had been given a tough assignment and he was in there fighting like hell on behalf of the British vehicle division . |
| 21 | He had never been stripped of his Bulgarian citizenship , and it was officially reported on June 12 that he had been granted a Bulgarian passport . |
| 22 | He said the soldier told him he had been struck a glancing blow by the car , but that he had not been knocked over and afterwards had been able to continue on duty . |
| 23 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 24 | He had been serving a 20-year term in Nicosia 's central prison . |
| 25 | He had been wearing a blue sweatshirt over his T-shirt , which he had taken off after the pub fight broke out . |
| 26 | Prior to his death , he had been planning a full-scale war with Scotland , calling upon his subjects to raise the revenues for the undertaking . |
| 27 | All this time he had been keeping a reserve force waiting in the library . |
| 28 | He had been keeping a wary eye on Jacques Devraux while he made another laborious copy of the revolutionary tract and he stopped writing to watch the Frenchman walk back to his own quarters . |
| 29 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 30 | By lunchtime Wexford and Burden had interviewed all those members of the darts club that had been present at Jack Pertwee 's stag party with the exception of Maurice Cullam , but none of them had been able to do more than confirm that Hatton had been aggressive , vain and malicious and that he had been carrying a great deal of money . |