Example sentences of "he [vb past] [verb] be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The goods to he sold had been piled up on the stairs where once " the possessions " had been piled ; bottles of jam and honey , heaps of hermetically sealed provisions , bottles of wine , cakes of chocolate pliable with the heat , tins of biscuits and even a few mouldy hams had been stacked against the splintered stumps which were all that now remained of the banisters Fleury had found so elegant the first evening he had entered the Residency . |
| 2 | He was simply lucky , perhaps , that the land which he sold had been allocated for residential purposes in a period when a new suburban city was coming into being . |
| 3 | On the phone from Canada , he jokes that one of the reasons he got involved was to get over the abortive attempts by Hollywood to film one of his scripts . |
| 4 | The main thing he got done was to defeat the General Strike . |
| 5 | That is done by considering a case in which a passenger can be held equally liable even though he sought to avoid being identified with the aggravated crime . |
| 6 | Mr Howell had debts of £500,000 even after everything he owned had been sold . |
| 7 | All he tried to do was relax and enjoy himself , ‘ and everything just fell into place . ’ |
| 8 | There was apparently an agreement between Pickard and Wasbrough allowing the latter to use the crank , and the engine-builder who was most incensed at the patenting of a device which he maintained had been known for centuries was James Watt [ q.v . ] . |
| 9 | This fellow Simon , you read about him in a few verses earlier , he was a , he was a magician , a so , er a sorcerer , he was the , the wi the witch doctor if you like , if he was in i i in an African situation , there he was , he was the medicine man of the town , of the area and he too believed and was converted , he was baptized , and he was amazed at the miracles that he 'd seen being performed by Philip through the power of God . |
| 10 | And he drew it out actually , remember he 's only six , seven years old and what he 'd done was to put this spring loaded hanger into the back of the tube and he 'd made a kind of trigger with a little , little plastic peg , and he said here 's your gun ! |
| 11 | All he 'd done was to make a picture of someone in his head and worm his way inside it . |
| 12 | He could n't distinguish her from the darkness , but any lingering doubt that she might belong to the dream from which he 'd risen was dispatched as her hand went from his mouth to his bare chest . |
| 13 | In the house which their son had accused them of boringly christening Sweetlea the Dasses continued the lives which he 'd said were boring also . |
| 14 | He did n't explain why it was going to be helpful and the pilot told him the car he 'd specified was waiting for them . |
| 15 | The closest he came to exercise was to open one eye every so often , if someone entered the room , or to open both eyes , smile , and wag his tail as he 'd done on one occasion when confronted by a housebreaker ! |
| 16 | During the trial Mr O'Donnell told how he had agreed to go with McPherson , who had driven him to a lay-by at the Rest and Be Thankful on the A83 road , where men he recognised had been waiting in a van . |
| 17 | He seemed to have been moving for an immeasurable time . |
| 18 | Thus a Dean of Durham , and an ex-Bishop of Durham , and a complicated patronage secretary who popped out of holes like a rabbit , and a doctrine of apostolic authority , and an Archbishop of York , and a desire to follow the calling of God even if it looked unlikely , winkled a professor out of a career to which he seemed to have been born . |
| 19 | Despite his chosen role as a small-town shopkeeper he seemed to have been accepted on equal terms by talented cosmopolitans … |
| 20 | He seemed to have been elected the most avoidable man in the clubhouse . |
| 21 | He seemed to have been driving for ever . |
| 22 | One moment Angel One had been crouched motionless as a carved statue , the next he seemed to have been transposed several feet nearer in the blink of an eye , like a faulty sequence in some badly cut movie . |
| 23 | The reality was that he seemed to have been forgotten and nothing was going to serve as a reminder unless the kidnappers broke their silence . |
| 24 | Alex Household had been excellent in the part , but , in retrospect , he seemed to have been giving an actor 's interpretation of a man fifteen years older than himself . |
| 25 | If Duncombe was himself an unaccomplished poet , he certainly laboured to promote the work of women whom he believed had been undervalued . |
| 26 | Crowley regarded the most important event of his life as being his ‘ reception ’ in April 1904 of The Book of the Law , a prose poem which he believed to have been dictated to him by ‘ a praeter-human intelligence ’ . |
| 27 | He left the ruling Laban ng Demokratikong Pilipino ( LDP — Democratic Filipino Struggle Party ) after a straw poll on Nov. 30 — which he claimed had been rigged — had chosen Ramon Mitra , the Speaker of the House of Representatives , as the LDP presidential candidate . |
| 28 | Virgin , he claimed had been precipitated into a compromise with Sting largely because their key witness was unreliable . |
| 29 | Boyle showed the jury a scar which he claimed had been caused by the crowbar . |
| 30 | The charges arose from a sexual encounter between Smith and Patricia Bowman in March 1991 [ see p. 38139 ] , which he claimed had been based upon mutual consent . |