Example sentences of "he have been very [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The people around him have been very receptive , although I must confess to an anxious moment when he was first being introduced to the players . |
| 2 | Mr Stafford Smith is doing his best to reverse the growing trend towards execution and so far he has been very successful . |
| 3 | But he has been very loving this summer and much cast down by the failure of the Italian cause and I will not grudge him a livelier time of it in Rome . |
| 4 | ‘ He has been very helpful . ’ |
| 5 | He has been very brave . |
| 6 | We have been lucky enough to see the Minister of State ; he has been very kind and we have had really good discussions with him . |
| 7 | Mind , that did n't mean he was n't a kind bloke , he 'd been very kind to her . |
| 8 | He 'd been very careful about that . |
| 9 | He had been very proud of my golfing prowess when it won me a place in the university golf team , and had even been heard to express his satisfaction when my handicap went down to scratch . |
| 10 | The students wondered if something had offended him , but later understood that he had been very depressed and had been still further depressed by the sight of everyone 's work . |
| 11 | If Sara did but know it , he had been very much against the provisions of the will . |
| 12 | He had been very fluent and articulate . |
| 13 | Rather unfairly , as he had been very nice that morning , it was a few minutes before I remembered there was a third guest present . |
| 14 | He had been very nervous about inviting us . |
| 15 | But he had been very helpful over the Puddephat business , she admitted to herself , and his moods were unpredictable — he might be on top of the world by the time he arrived at the cinema . |
| 16 | ‘ He had been very good while I was pregnant . |
| 17 | Then the telephone rang , and the director said he had been very good , and did he like päte1 ? |
| 18 | The late Derek Cross had been through the tunnel on the footplate of an A3 Pacific and a Class 40 diesel and on both occasions he had been very pleased to see the other end of the tunnel , such is its evil , brooding , emotive reputation . |
| 19 | He had been working at the Council depot as an attendant when Joe offered him the job , and he had been very pleased to make the change . |
| 20 | He was English and he had been very clever . |
| 21 | ‘ He told me he had been very upset that day . |
| 22 | A meeting he had been very anxious to keep a secret from the other Ping Tiao leaders . |
| 23 | Knowing that they would make fun of him , he had been very careful not to say her new name in front of Tom Fish . |
| 24 | He had been very careful in the way that he spoke to her and was very apologetic when he swore . |
| 25 | He had been very quiet lately and I think he was depressed . ’ |
| 26 | He had been very quiet . |
| 27 | He had been very fond of Mick , and of his company . |
| 28 | He came back , and he had been very quick , with an umbrella from which , as he plunged in through the swing door , he was tearing the plastic wrapping . |
| 29 | From there he begged a lift in a bomber belonging to the Desert Air Force , and the crew flew him to Udine — he had been very glad of his sheepskin coat and boots . |
| 30 | He had been very kind this morning about the murder . |