Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] some " in BNC.
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| 1 | It would be just like Sipotai to attempt overwhelming force , and he had been expecting some kind of reaction ever since he had issued the order for Vortai 's herds to be culled . |
| 2 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 3 | The master at this time , J.W. , was in trouble when it was reported that he had been boarding some of the officers and two of their relatives in his own apartments under a private arrangement . |
| 4 | He had been reading some fine sentiments in a little book of Carlyle 's , his Heroes and Hero-Worship . |
| 5 | ‘ He had been doing some cricket practice with the younger boarders . |
| 6 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |