Example sentences of "[vb past] he been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Had he been bearing a grudge against her since the previous Friday when she had pushed him against the door of Woolworth 's ? |
| 2 | It was a brutal place , which Paul would have avoided had he been thinking clearly ; but his mind was far away . |
| 3 | What had he been thinking about ? |
| 4 | David had told her to trust him , but had he been implying that everything would be all right and that their relationship would continue ? |
| 5 | At such times you need to turn to a wise and experienced adviser who might well have steered you clear of the mistake had he been consulted earlier . |
| 6 | Had he been telling the truth ? |
| 7 | Had he been expressing his doubts about her to Matt ? |
| 8 | Had he been facing any of the big cat family , with their formidable armoury of fang , claw , power and speed , he would , for all his martial arts training , have been in with very little chance of survival , let alone victory . |
| 9 | But in that case why had he been invited here in the first place ? |
| 10 | Carrie flashed Seb a shy smile that , had he been looking at her , would have conveyed to him all the love she was feeling . |
| 11 | In April 1816 , musing after John Brownrigg 's death , he says he might have thought differently of him had he been born in Ambleside , ‘ the moral code of the people here not being like that of many other places . ’ |
| 12 | I found his blend of assurance , diffidence and wit beguiling , and I have often wondered what he might have done had he been born free . |
| 13 | Not , that is , more of a Chinaman : had he been born in Peking , no doubt he would have disappointed patriots there too . |
| 14 | He said he would have done considerably better had he been granted anything approaching equal access to the media and had tricks not been played against him . |
| 15 | Had he been charged with the more serious offence of causing death by reckless driving , he would have faced a Crown court and a jail sentence of up to five years . |
| 16 | Well , maybe they were n't his exact words , but I expect he would have come up with something like that had he been asked for his thoughts on Carter 's ‘ Only Living Boy In New Cross ’ . |
| 17 | Had he been hoping for Doreen to arrive and say she was no longer interested in the large Hastings home and that she 'd be willing to live anywhere with him — even to work beside him out in the wilderness ? |
| 18 | Had he been shot ? |
| 19 | The streetwise young black would have done just that , had he been given the chance . |
| 20 | Why , Mr M wanted to know , had he been sent to Sanday at all ? |
| 21 | Copsey is nor a dirty player and it would have been tragic had he been sent off in his first international ’ — IEUAN EVANS ( Wales captain ) on the Tony Copsey incident in Dublin against Ireland . |
| 22 | Millwall chairman Reg Burr says : ‘ Many people would not have been surprised had he been sent off . |
| 23 | For Charles it may have meant political survival , for perhaps he really would have been tonsured had he been defeated . |
| 24 | Had he been watching the others , before he took his own spoonful ? |
| 25 | What had he been trying to tell her ? |
| 26 | Had he been followed ? |
| 27 | Had he chosen a military life through love of the Motherland , or had he been channelled into it by the State that had reared him ? |
| 28 | Had he been interned until the end of the war in Tost or one of the other civilian camps , he would probably have faced no charges . |
| 29 | Thomas May 's earlier assumption would have been a perfectly natural one had he been dealing with a museum collection , but here at Templebrough , the sherds came from his own excavation , and the only conclusion to be drawn is that he had very little conception of the significance of stratified deposits . |
| 30 | Had he been drinking ? |