Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] [be] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I did n't know he had been killed . |
| 2 | She would recognise him when he made his approach , would know he had been behaving deviously but he would be straight into devious matters anyway . |
| 3 | Indeed , the injured man did not even know he had been bitten until the water turned red as he swam to shore . |
| 4 | Did you know he 'd been convicted of drunken driving ? |
| 5 | Any failure to press the Bat switch while the Bat diode D9 is momentarily lit results in a low output from transistor TR4 and the ball moves on to the wicket l.e.d. where it stays to let the batsman know he has been bowled out . |
| 6 | Madam Speaker has the lord president of the council noticed the response of Mr Reynolds and to Miss Mary Harney 's question what representations has he had been made to United States over Gerry Adams ' visit . |
| 7 | He was irritated by a piece of smut on her cheek and started to wipe it off , and then pretended he had been stroking her , because he saw her distress at an emotion that she had guessed with her usual impossible correctness . |
| 8 | I looked for my favourite character , only to find he had been replaced by the same bitch who has taken over Lloyd 's job . |
| 9 | He remembered the chapel of St John and wondered what lies he had been told there . |
| 10 | When it broke daylight the next morning he found he had been fishing on a sandbar which shallowed up twenty yards out . |
| 11 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 12 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 13 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 14 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 15 | But as a fiercely-contested clash ended in a 2-1 defeat , sealed by substitute Mark Walters in a thrilling finale , he found he has been replaced by his successor Graeme Souness as king in the affections of the Anfield faithful . |
| 16 | When this incident occurred he 'd been working on a project in Harlow in Essex setting up another system . |
| 17 | One deaf electrician from Gillingham , Kent , a Thomas Pearce , was shot dead by a sentry in Southport , Lancashire , to which place he had been sent to do a job : he had failed to see the sentry in the dark and the sentry shot him after challenging him three times . |
| 18 | And he would ask a few questions , say he 'd been looking for a few hours . |
| 19 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 20 | They say he 's been stopped from dispensing NHS prescriptions . ’ |
| 21 | ‘ You say he 's been charged with assault … ’ |
| 22 | ‘ Why , they say he has been thrown into prison for debt ! ’ |
| 23 | Grampian Police say he has been identified as a Northfield resident but his name is being withheld . |
| 24 | But tonight he said he believed he 'd been punished enough . |
| 25 | All that those LA police offices had to say to get acquitted of beating Rodney King was that they believed he had been using PCP . |
| 26 | He killed 19-year-old Walter Smith because he believed he had been mistreating his childhood friend Sharon . |
| 27 | In fact , I have no reason to think that Wilson wrote this or any other letter protesting against the establishment of a wide-ranging inquiry such as Denning believed he had been instructed to conduct . |
| 28 | An outstanding example was provided by the GEC merger with English Electric in 1968 in which its promoter , Arnold Weinstock , firmly believed he had been helped by government support through the IRC . |
| 29 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 30 | He believed he had been booked in the corresponding match against Lithuania in Belfast last year — or possibly against Albania . |