Example sentences of "him [subord] he [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had tried to open up the subject of Hasan several times , but Mr Malik seemed far less concerned about him than he had been . |
| 2 | When I asked him if he had been involved in an accident , he shook his head . |
| 3 | ‘ My father would have been the first to have congratulated him if he had been here , ’ he said . |
| 4 | But he looked up and smiled quite normally , and she did n't have the nerve to ask him if he had been listening . |
| 5 | The driver became suspicious when the man , dressed in a dark uniform approached him and asked him if he 'd been drinking . |
| 6 | I contacted him because he had been a friend of the novelist and playwright , Patrick Hamilton , about whom I am writing a book . |
| 7 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 8 | But I 'm happy with my decision to rest him because he has been competing since January , and Ever is an improving horse . ’ |
| 9 | I FEEL sorry for him because he 's been through so much — hammered in every way . |
| 10 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 11 | ‘ Now do stop fussing around , ’ his wife said to him after he had been tossing and turning for about an hour . |
| 12 | He 'd spent most of the evening wrestling with the one fragment that he 'd managed to retain , picked out of the air behind him as he 'd been standing at the cooker watching his soup boil . |
| 13 | She hoped so , hoped he was being as scathing with him as he 'd been with herself . |
| 14 | In her own way , she had been every bit as insulting to him as he 'd been to her . |
| 15 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 16 | He had returned earlier in the day and Maeve was as ecstatic to see him as he had been hungry for her . |
| 17 | She had loved him while hating him , had loved him when he 'd been a perfect swine . |
| 18 | " I 'm awake , " she told him when he had been standing in silence beside her for some seconds . |