Example sentences of "and he [verb] been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The King was only just over seventy , and he had been well enough to make one of his ‘ bluff Englishman 's ’ jokes about the Hoare debacle , to spend his usual Christmas and New Year in the Norfolk countryside , and to deliver his Christmas broadcast from there . |
| 2 | Vlaçek had been a prize , and he had been loyal : all attempts to woo him away from de Chavigny — and there had been many — had failed . |
| 3 | But now the other cases were finished , and he had been successful in both of them . |
| 4 | PC John Burden , coroner 's officer for Canterbury , Kent , said : ‘ He had a history of depression dating back to the early 1970s and he had been depressed since September this year . ’ |
| 5 | True , I was not Rowse 's student : but I had met him chiefly through Eliot 's introduction , and he had been civil enough , and even , despite marked differences of viewpoint , encouraging . |
| 6 | There was no family history of haemolytic crises and he had been healthy until December 1991 , when he was found to have antibodies to HIV-1 . |
| 7 | Sally-Anne had met him at a party ; he had long been settled in England , and he had been impressed and amused by her fiery conversation and her obvious intelligence . |
| 8 | And he had been right . |
| 9 | His hands swept down and began to remove their clothes , first his own and then hers , and he had been right , his fingers did fumble a little , but she did n't mind that . |
| 10 | Barbara had been standing very close to him , and he had been conscious of the nearness of her left breast and the faint smell of perfume mixed not unpleasantly with sweat . |
| 11 | Konstantin Charsky was a poet like herself , but much better known , and he had been able to gather quite a few western books . |
| 12 | He was used to such things , and he had been able to pass the time by fulfilling an old ambition , to read Edward Gibbon 's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire in the original English . |
| 13 | The office gossip had been quite useful in reassuring him on that point , and he had been able to view the uncomfortable ride in the lift with them in an encouraging new light . |
| 14 | His fascination with anything to do with space and spaceflight bordered upon obsession and he had been horrified when The New Hope had been blown out of the sky by the Seven . |
| 15 | He owed his life to his men , he said , and he had been horrified to discover the conditions in which they lived at home , particularly in the towns — he being a gentleman , you see , and always living in the country in comfort . |
| 16 | Now his hunting rifle had lost a piece from its firing mechanism and he had been unable to replace it . |
| 17 | Said his wife had been in need of a holiday and he had been unable to get away . |
| 18 | The gallery light was out — not unreasonable at this hour — and he had been unable to find the switch . |
| 19 | Dr Nanayakkara said Liam 's death had caused him grave concern and he had been eager a specialist children 's pathologist should carry out the post-mortem examination . |
| 20 | He said that when he was very young , he 'd made up his mind to marry her , but that it was a crazy idea and he 'd been stupid ever to think of it and Alice had been quite right when she told him so . ’ |
| 21 | And he 'd been unlucky , what with the ubiquitous Mr Burke of the Somme and a low quota of political scandals conspiring to make Chant posthumously famous . |
| 22 | Perkin had listened more than he 'd talked , and he 'd been cunning and careful . |
| 23 | That 's what Reg had told his mother , God rest her soul , and he 'd been right . |
| 24 | But he still thought it was crazy , and he 'd been right . |
| 25 | And he 'd been bored … |
| 26 | He was found down by the river this morning and he 'd been dead since midnight or before . ’ |
| 27 | Mandru 's agent had been outbid , however , and he 'd been reluctant to return home empty-handed . |
| 28 | But he was also a healthy adult male with an appetite for life , an appetite he was accustomed to feeding , and he 'd been hungry for too long . |
| 29 | And he 's been invaluable in organizing the present conference . |
| 30 | He 's had a rotten deal from me and he 's been marvellous about it . |