Example sentences of "and [verb] [conj] he [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He asked himself , ‘ What is the direction upon which I have been depending ? ’ , and realized that he had been relying on a sense of what seemed ‘ natural ’ and ‘ right ’ to govern his actions . |
| 2 | Resisted and resented though he had been at every turn , he nonetheless detected a direction to his enquiries that promised to become an unwavering course . |
| 3 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 4 | And says if he 'd been given his own psychiatric nurse … he would never have jumped off the train . |
| 5 | The employer refused to do this so Mr Bowles resigned and claimed that he had been constructively dismissed and that his dismissal was unfair . |
| 6 | One " secret witness " , subsequently identified as a German of Iraqi origin , recanted his testimony during the trial and claimed that he had been forced to make a false testimony under duress . |
| 7 | Ramsay decided and declared that he had been mistaken in staying on in Berwick thus long . |
| 8 | That being an impossible expectation , I went off on a tack and remarked that he 'd been lucky , as a politician , that he was also a natural entertainer . |
| 9 | He was not prosecuted when he returned to England in 1919 and insisted that he had been employed by British Naval Intelligence . |
| 10 | Gatsby decides to take the blame and pretend that he had been driving and take whatever punishment comes , which in the end meant that he was shot by the dead woman 's husband . |
| 11 | William looked around at the stacks of cartons and bundles and felt that he had been wasting his time tidying the stock . |
| 12 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 13 | He denied all charges and said that he had been severely tortured . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | He also indicated that he had disagreed with other members of the government on the running of the education department and said that he had been " gradually marginalized within the government " . |
| 16 | He was grateful to Taheb for having sought work for him through Merymose , and wondered if he had been unduly mistrustful of her . |