Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] he have [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I realized he had been listening until he heard Catherine say she could not marry him . |
| 2 | I did a double-take before I realized he 'd been talking to me . |
| 3 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 4 | When it was our turn I found he had been right about the word antiquarian giving the immigration officers something to think about . |
| 5 | His name was , but I found he 'd been lodging in a house in Road close to the railway station . |
| 6 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 7 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 8 | It was just that , well , I heard he 'd been down at the police station this morning . |
| 9 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 10 | I said ( I was shocked , because from what he had said about other things , I thought he must be Labour , I knew he had been a Communist once ) , I 'd rather we had the New People than poor people . |
| 11 | I knew he had been a colleague of my father ; I wondered how he knew I was on the Sort-to . |
| 12 | My dear , he was holding it exactly as if it had been a squashed blackbeetle , and I knew he 'd been criticizing me all evening . |
| 13 | Marcus appeared in next-door 's back garden which surprised me as last I knew he 'd been snoring under the duvet . |
| 14 | I saw he had been drinking , and I knew I was in a very dangerous situation . |
| 15 | He dodged behind a bus and I thought he 'd been knocked down . |
| 16 | I thought he had been right , and that what happened to me on that oily beach was all I was fit for . |
| 17 | So like I even said that to the coppers today I said he 's been handling seventeen hundred pounds near enough near as damn it |
| 18 | A woman in Naples recently insisted on having her husband 's grave dug up — after she realised he 'd been buried with £3,500 in his jacket pocket . |
| 19 | Now she realised he 'd been hovering on the verges of her thoughts , just waiting for an opportunity to pounce . |
| 20 | He slowly straightened to his full height and she realised he had been sitting on the bed leaning over her . |
| 21 | Six months before her overdose Liz terminated the relationship with her boyfriend of two years ' standing after she discovered he had been going out with another girl . |
| 22 | He was glad she thought he had been cool . |
| 23 | At that time , and erm she had n't known anything about it , because he had looked after the benefit , and she thought he 'd been paying the rent . |
| 24 | She knew he 'd been studying her face while watching for her reaction . |
| 25 | But he had been drinking , and deep inside she knew he had been partly to blame . |
| 26 | He came forward into the firelight then and she saw he had been sitting beside the range , in an old rocking chair which he had left tilting back and forth , to take the lantern from her , grasping her free hand in his . |
| 27 | She wished he had been here when that unpleasant Mr Coleby had called . |
| 28 | There was a lengthy pause before she said he had been allowed no choice . |
| 29 | ‘ I asked Miss Allitt what had gone wrong , and she said he had been violently sick . ’ |
| 30 | Having met the Prime Minister to discuss the matter , she said he had been sympathetic , but she dismissed moves by the Home Office as a cosmetic exercise . |