Example sentences of "he had [adv] [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had evidently been through all this before . |
| 2 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 3 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 4 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |
| 5 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 6 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 7 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 8 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |