Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Home succeeded Macmillan , he moved Edward Heath from the Foreign Office ( where he had been Home 's number two ) to the Board of Trade . |
| 2 | In the Wedgwood Benn Case 1961 the House of Commons refused to allow Tony Benn to take his seat although he had been duly elected . |
| 3 | Furthermore , although he had been pretty well openly accused of dishonesty at the meeting , his moral standards were much the same as Richard 's , only he did not feel he was well enough off to apply them as often , and in such a wide range of conditions , as the Skipper . |
| 4 | They had not entirely forgotten him back home , then , although he had been away 37 years . |
| 5 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 6 | Grunte , he opined , was ‘ a pain in the bum ’ , although he had been quite helpful over the matter of the new motorway route which happened to pass through his garden or , if not his garden , damn close . |
| 7 | On arriving at Dingle , he had expected to be given charge of a spoilt , overdressed menina who would spend the whole voyage in her cot with her maidservant running about in attendance , so he had been pleasantly surprised to find in Sara an odd mixture of childish enthusiasm and womanly grace . |
| 8 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 9 | Young H from Wallasey was a pretty major exception to this rule — he did the drop in of doom off the extension to flat bottom hipper , slashed about did mass ollies onto the extension , laybacks , wore an agnostic Front tee , and generally skated like he 'd been around since the sevs and was a dwarf just pretending to be under 16 . |
| 10 | In the present proceedings , as counsel has pointed out , the respondent 's chances of purging his contempt at an early stage were not high , even if he had been properly informed of his right to make the attempt , but that is to confuse the existence of a right with its strength . |
| 11 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 12 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 13 | And if he had been away ever since he last turned up in the office , who was dealing with his post , and paying the quarterly bills ? |
| 14 | The speaker feels — and do n't we all ? — that if he had been around then he might have had the good fortune to cut a greater dash in the subject than he is succeeding in doing in present circumstances . |
| 15 | ‘ If , in any case not expressly provided for by this Act , a liability to any duty , or any authority or power , not incident to the administration of justice in any court , whose jurisdiction is transferred by this Act to the High Court of Justice , shall have been imposed or conferred by any statute , law , or custom upon the judges or any judge of any of such courts , save as hereinafter mentioned , every judge of the said High Court shall be capable of performing and exercising , and shall be liable to perform and empowered to exercise every such duty , authority , and power , in the same manner as if this Act had not passed , and as if he had been duly appointed the successor of a judge liable to such duty , or possessing such authority or power , before the passing of this Act . … |
| 16 | Our happiness would have been complete if he had been here . |
| 17 | Whatever people say to him in confidence and whatever they may say in twos or threes , if he had been here when the issue was raised on the Floor of the House only a week or so ago he would have realised — indeed he was here so he should have realised this instantly — that the leaders of the groups might come to an — |
| 18 | ‘ My father would have been the first to have congratulated him if he had been here , ’ he said . |
| 19 | The evidence showed that the plaintiff would have worn the goggles if he had been firmly instructed to do so and supervised . |
| 20 | He was grateful to Taheb for having sought work for him through Merymose , and wondered if he had been unduly mistrustful of her . |
| 21 | If he had been simply playing the girl game , she reasoned , he would be getting steadily more intimate , and here he is reverting to deference . |
| 22 | He looked distraught , his tie was pulled down and his collar open , his hair was ruffled , but even if he had been neatly dressed and groomed , the bright staring eyes and hectic cheeks would have warned Pascoe that something was amiss . |
| 23 | Edmund Barham 's wooden acting as Carlos would have mattered less if he had been vocally more alluring and if his stilted phrasing had taken a hint from Mark Elder 's conducting . |
| 24 | as if he had been somewhat overtaxed . |
| 25 | ‘ Even if he had been out shooting , he would n't slip into a lady 's bedroom in muddy hunting boots . ’ |
| 26 | I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing . |
| 27 | He was fully dressed as if he had been out of the chateau . ’ |
| 28 | He was still wearing the same clothes he 'd worn that afternoon , and Juliet wondered if he had been out that evening , and who with . |
| 29 | If he had been less aroused he would n't have done it ; if he had been more aroused he would n't have noticed . |
| 30 | Wade himself described the surrender of Carlisle as ‘ very scandalous and shameful , if not treacherous ’ , but it would have held out if he had been more encouraging . |