Example sentences of "[verb] and he [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The author recalls an able Treasury minister who , after resignation , became a convinced and cogent parliamentary reformer , explaining that as a minister he had had no time to work out this aspect of policy and therefore , since the Treasury was opposed to more specialist committees of the House of Commons , he used the brief they provided and he had been a formidable opponent of these reforms at the Cabinet Committee level . |
| 2 | Crook in particular was anxious to leave the ground floor flat because his windows had been smashed and he had been attacked . |
| 3 | so I 've never done anything , but he 's moved and he 's been back and seen us . |
| 4 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 5 | The cautions referred to had been given and he had been questioned months earlier on the first charges . |
| 6 | Allen had been interested in the sack ; she had seen him stooping where the sack was hidden and he had been doing something with it . |
| 7 | For a short time he was buried at Cambridge at the Military Cemetery , but since then I 've checked and he has been sent , his body sent back home . |
| 8 | Anthony Gilberthorpe was originally awarded damages of more than sixty thousand pounds , but now that 's been overturned and he 's been told he must pay all the costs . |
| 9 | The sympathetic voices preferred to argue that Charlie 's champagne bubble had burst and he had been smitten by the sentimental Scottish condition called homesickness . |
| 10 | Well he had actually retired from the police force , he 'd been cited and he 'd been cleared , but he was actually , as it turned out later , practising paedophilia and as he realized that in fact the investigation was coming close to him , he shot himself |