Example sentences of "and [verb] he [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | I heard a scuffle outside and presumed he 'd been escorted from the building , but before leaving he pushed a News of the World Christmas card under the door offering me £40,000 for an interview . |
| 2 | Since Holyfield took over and made grandad-bashing respectable on the heavyweight scene , those young lions who ought to have been clawing each other for the right to depose and expose him have been harmlessly shadow boxing around each other . |
| 3 | He heard Larry asking why , and realized he had been deaf . |
| 4 | Craig looked around him and realized he had been here before . |
| 5 | Riven blinked , and realised he had been staring at nothing for a long minute . |
| 6 | So he would be vague , and talk of the south , and say he had been a vagrant for many years . |
| 7 | The police have questioned Mr Probyne and say he 's been very helpful , but they have n't ruled out any line of inquiry : |
| 8 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 9 | He wakes up one morning and realises he 's been an idiot . |
| 10 | He then stopped himself in mid-sentence and claimed he had been joking . |
| 11 | Once there he held a much-publicised news conference during which he ridiculed American intelligence and claimed he had been held in captivity by the CIA . |
| 12 | He maintained his innocence and claimed he had been willing to give his life for Castro but had never been a communist . |
| 13 | My son-in-law came home a few weeks ago and confessed he 'd been having an affair with a girl in his office . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Mungo caught Jos 's eye , and knew he had been forgiven . |
| 16 | But when she looked back at him he saw the hatred in her eyes and knew he had been right . |
| 17 | And to think he 'd been agonizing about what line to take on Bartocci 's conspiracy theory ! |
| 18 | The MP vigorously denied assault and said he had been struck by the officer . |
| 19 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |
| 20 | Mr Wakil denounced Mr Najibullah for cowardice in trying to flee and said he had been forced to resign as head of the ruling Watan ( Homeland ) Party . |
| 21 | He came home from school some days later and said he had been ‘ thinking very seriously about our situation ’ — he was already beginning to be pompous — and that it was quite obvious that some women were unsuited to a life which held nothing but home and children . |
| 22 | He still insisted he had done nothing to be ashamed of and said he had been cleared of wrongdoing by his ‘ constant friend ’ Mr Major . |
| 23 | He thought he was covered to drive another vehicle , and said he had been told as much on the telephone by his insurers . |
| 24 | Matt muttered something about the Sir Francis Level and said he had been here before . |
| 25 | Three days later Ainsworth went to the landlord , Liverpool Housing Trust and said he had been illegally sub-letting the flat . |
| 26 | Mr Templeton said that minutes later he had spoken to a policeman who contradicted that information and said he had been told that there was someone in the building . |
| 27 | When questioned by police he confessed to the killing and said he 'd been drinking and taking amphetamines . |
| 28 | It 's funny er when Richard came in the other day and said he 'd been he 'd been to the dentist and you said oh well they have n't been in touch with us yet . |
| 29 | So it was a happy coincidence that the Rev Alan Mackenzie at the same Congress was able to announce that he had recently attended a meeting between Sir Keith Joseph , then Secretary of State for Social Services , and representatives of other national voluntary organisations concerned with the deaf and the hard of hearing , where the Minister 's intention of setting up a permanent committee to help and advise him had been discussed . |
| 30 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |