Example sentences of "he had be [verb] [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |
| 2 | Lee wondered why the barman tolerated him but when she looked towards the bar she saw that the barman seemed hypnotized by the antics of the pub 's female singer , not pleasantly , but as if he had been created permanently attached to a painful but essentially dependable puzzle . |
| 3 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 4 | Some would have said that he had not taken even the first step , since he had been invested irregularly with his pastoral staff by the king . |
| 5 | He had been swept along by Tommy 's drunken madness . |
| 6 | Up until then he had been acting temporarily in the post , awaiting the arrival of a more experienced businessman . |
| 7 | He would soon realise he had been acting stupidly and feel sorry for his bad temper . |
| 8 | He had been listening carefully . |
| 9 | He had been listening in . |
| 10 | What a fool he had been to waste so much time being " poetic " and not eating . |
| 11 | But er his erm father h was the blacksmith and he had been born away up , and er he came to Ga he came to serve his time in a blacksmith 's shop at and er |
| 12 | He had been born just over two months after the marriage , and they named him Charles Benjamin after his paternal grandfather and father respectively . |
| 13 | Within three days he felt that he had been born again . |
| 14 | He parried the stories of wealth and of smuggling : all town talk , he said , and besides , people in Borrowdale just would not be up to the scheming and deception involved , not the people he knew in Borrowdale and he had been born there — as had his wife — born there — as had their parents |
| 15 | He was a wandering Jew , a refugee , driven out of the land he had been born in . |
| 16 | He was expecting a visit from the young woman he had been wooing assiduously and he had carefully orchestrated the evening so that all his housemates were out and he had the house to himself . |
| 17 | The Bedford tribunal was told he had been warned previously about slapping pupils . |
| 18 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 19 | But it is a mistake , surely , to think of emotive meaning as a form of meaning in that most important sense of meaning in which we ask what someone meant by saying something , or what he would have meant if he had been speaking properly . |
| 20 | ‘ Fred Proctor asked him to sit down as he had been speaking long enough . |
| 21 | He had been speaking only a day or two ago to a miners ' meeting attended by what he called the ‘ Scargill Mafia ’ . |
| 22 | The deputy was a Socialist , he had been speaking out against the old work conditions that were being reimposed . |
| 23 | He had been shot down in September , 194O . |
| 24 | Suddenly he heard a clattering noise and his cockpit filled with smoke , the controls going dead — he had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 25 | The pilot survived the crash , but further investigation found that a month later he had been shot down by enemy fighters 12 miles off Etaples , Northern France , again flying a Tomahawk . |
| 26 | He was wearing the tunic in which he had been shot down . |
| 27 | When Ven drew up outside her hotel , Fabia went on to realise just how kind he had been to give up so much of his time . |
| 28 | As a BCP politburo and secretariat member until mid-1988 , he had been widely regarded as the person most likely to lead political reform in Bulgaria , but he had been dismissed abruptly from the party leadership in July 1988 [ see p. 36304 ] . |
| 29 | It occurred to her that perhaps he had been drinking again . |
| 30 | Item — On the night of March 18th , there was a fierce storm ; Alexander was not drunk but he had been drinking heavily . |