Example sentences of "he had be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 2 | He had been conducting this little enterprise since the age of twelve , wearing false moustaches and passing for sixteen . |
| 3 | He is retired now , but he had been sent all her possessions some time after the war from the house in avenue Hoche . |
| 4 | But he did miss it ; he thought he had been born homesick ; he certainly thought he had spent most of his life waiting and longing and aching for the Bright Palace where his mother 's people had quarrelled and laughed and made love and war , and where the charming ruthless Wolfkings had woven Ireland 's history . |
| 5 | He supposed that he had been rendered unconscious when he had entered his quarters . |
| 6 | He had been drinking all day with Slatter on 3 April , they had consumed some fourteen or fifteen quarts of ale , they had entered the Chequers , where they had been involved in an argument with two large men he now knew to be Hewett and Charlton . |
| 7 | He had been drinking all night long , beer and whisky . |
| 8 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 9 | As a student he had been nicknamed Red Leland . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had been expecting this visit ; had been rehearsing what he would say . |
| 12 | In 1990 , the European Court held that a 60-year-old man employed by an insurance company had been unlawfully discriminated against because when he had been made redundant his company pension scheme was deferred whereas a female member of the scheme could have drawn her pension immediately . |
| 13 | He said he had been made redundant . |
| 14 | In 1969 he had been made assistant secretary to the Diocesan Schools Commission , becoming principal secretary three years later , he also became a member of the Finance Commission , and then in 1972 Bishop Wheeler appointed him his personal private secretary at Bishop 's House . |
| 15 | His success with the coffee machine was acknowledged , grudged but acknowledged , but he had been made aware that there was an argument for calling in the professionals when it came to tampering with the thermostat on the air system . |
| 16 | Prime Minister Guy Razanamasy on July 30 said that he had been made aware of the imminent attempt the day before it took place and that a " foreign power " was responsible . |
| 17 | Mr Travers , a plasterer , who had lost his house when he had been made bankrupt , opened the window slowly . |
| 18 | However , the majority of MPs expressed their support , pointing out that he had been elected first time to the shadow cabinet , giving him a mandate and the right to the same loyalty which his predecessors , Donald Dewar and Bruce Millan , had received . |
| 19 | He had been elected last month to the Spanish Parliament and was murdered the night before he was to take his seat . |
| 20 | He had been discovered unconscious in his kitchen by his son-in-law . |
| 21 | But birthday boy Wright was waiting to break the deadlock with the goal he had been seeking all night . |
| 22 | He had been dreading this . |
| 23 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 24 | To his surprise she named a reputable dealer in fine art that he had been to see that afternoon . |
| 25 | Even though he had accepted general responsibility for his company 's operations , and would probably have agreed to print the books had the decision been referred to him , he could not be convicted unless he had been given specific notice of the offensive material . |
| 26 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 27 | Instead he sent out 12th man Paul Reiffel to cover for him whole he rang chairman of selectors Lawrie Sawle to vent his feelings about the news he had been given that morning . |
| 28 | He had been given curious looks by the person who gave him the directions which show that he was a stranger as he was not recognised . |
| 29 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 30 | I later interviewed the bemused recordist , and established he had been given two portable stereo tape recorders , which he had laid on the ground pointing in opposite directions . |