Example sentences of "[adj] he have been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Whilst with Tangye Ltd. he had been responsible for machinery used by the Saltburn , North Yorkshire cliff railway . |
| 2 | Gravellier felt nervous , so nervous he 'd been unable to eat any breakfast . |
| 3 | But he was glad he 'd been able to fend off too many probing journalistic questions about her ; he did n't want them publishing any comments about her at this stage , that was sure . |
| 4 | In 1964 he had been prepared to back his hunches . |
| 5 | Good god lad , so erm , she said oh I know I 've been naughty and I have , not neglecting him in a naut , you know , they 've been making sure he 's been alright |
| 6 | His pockets contained all he had been able to abstract from the apartment without attracting attention : his American passport and driving licence , though these would soon be useless when the alert went out , a wad of British money from Sam 's purse , his multi-bladed penknife and a pair of pliers from the fuse-cupboard . |
| 7 | All he had been able to envisage was his mother , so slight and fair , being mounted first by Dadda and then by the lorry driver . |
| 8 | She clung to him , and his mouth found hers , and she tasted as fresh and as new as the morning , and desire had exploded within him , and he thought that after all he had been wrong : once would never be sufficient , he wanted her for always , he wanted to be with her , to share everything with her . |
| 9 | It had , however , been the only one that Rory had been able to lay hold of , and at first he had been proud of it . |
| 10 | First he 'd been crazy enough to subdue her with a kiss which , though it had begun in anger , had aroused a need for her so hot and instant that it had stunned him more than her slap , and now this . |
| 11 | RAY HAD a knack for singing a peppy tune , an impressive talent given that he 'd been blind since the age of six ( one of his last sights was the drowning of his brother ) and a heroin addict for most of his adult days . |
| 12 | These were papers , filling two volumes , left unpublished at Hunter 's death , which Owen dedicated to the Royal College of Surgeons , where from 1837 he had been Hunterian Professor . |
| 13 | Well , it was the best he had been able to come up with and , if it was not sufficient , he could not think what else he could do . |
| 14 | Bowe 's trainer Eddie Futch , 80 , who 's probably seen more fights than even most men of his age have had hot dinners , expects it to be one of the best he 's been involved with . |
| 15 | Since 1954 he had been Second Master , filling this difficult position with meticulous efficiency and good humour , qualities which also marked his teaching . |