Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He went back to the telephone , prompted by the recollection of an awkward scene where he had been made to feel unwelcome , a situation created by a man to whom he had taken a dislike . |
| 2 | He had been trying to put inorganic chemistry into an intelligible form for his students at the University of St Petersburg , when ( in common with various contemporaries in various countries ) he realized that if the elements are set out in order of increasing atomic weight , they display periodicity : similar elements recur at regular intervals . |
| 3 | He had had all the advantages of what my father called ‘ a good family background ’ ; he spoke with an educated voice ; he had been raised to respect good manners . |
| 4 | On the nights previous to the murder he had been seen lurking outside party headquarters . |
| 5 | He had been asked to speak some months ago on the subject , ‘ A Woman 's Place ’ . |
| 6 | At the other end , Dykstra saved at the feet of Hateley after he had been allowed to break free after a misplaced pass-back by Nijholt . |
| 7 | He had been hurrying to finish this latest copy before the meal ended , and seeing through the slit that his wife was heading out across the clearing with his two small sons to begin collecting the dishes , he put aside his pencil and hastily read over what he 'd written . |
| 8 | I could see in his eyes that he was wondering why he had been advised to consult such a lunatic . |
| 9 | In fact he had been advised to take cheap and expeditious transit on one of the small four-crewed colliers that sailed from Tyne to Thames , which journey , depending on wind and tide , took less time . |
| 10 | And he had been left to conduct this hearing on his own , secure that he would make the decision both Hotspur and she needed . |
| 11 | Although he had been told to do this on some goddamned boring management course , the sergeant did it instinctively . |
| 12 | They were of special interest to Mr Dalyell as he had been attempting to get more information from ministers about the sinking of the General Belgrano . |
| 13 | DPP ( 1954 ) D , who was sexually impotent , was taunted about his impotence and kicked in the groin by a prostitute with whom he had been attempting to have sexual intercourse , whereupon he lost self-control and killed her . |
| 14 | One young farmer , Shermani Yussef , said that for the first time in his life he had been forced to lease some of his land to cover his losses . |
| 15 | At his trial in September 1989 , Suh Kyung-won testified to having been ill-treated during his interrogation and said that he had been forced to make false statements under duress . |
| 16 | Invariably this works out at less than the cost of the repairs , because a vendor would be unlikely to reduce his price to the extent of their full cost — he would argue that he had already taken some account of defects and age when fixing the price of his house in the first place , and if he had been expected to replace all the windows he would have asked a correspondingly higher price . |
| 17 | Ashley stopped whatever he had been going to say next with a humourless laugh . |