Example sentences of "he [adv] [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 2 | So that that was I mean he just had been paid so it was |
| 3 | Behind him he could hear one of the boys mutter that Mr Wilson had gone mad , and another reply that he always had been . |
| 4 | Because he was n't just the same hard , tough personality that he always had been : he was now far more dangerous — certainly if her present fragile emotions were anything to go by . |
| 5 | He always had been a perfect gentleman . |
| 6 | The man he once had been . |
| 7 | Anton , in this cubicle , stuck time , it seemed as a hundred years , the boy ; he was surprised how innocent , trusting — for he saw it all so clearly now , Parker 's mask — he once had been . |
| 8 | He had begun to suspect that , despite his many years of unstinting service to the Party in both Warwickshire and Westminster , he was not as loved as he once had been . |
| 9 | He also had been confined to a strip cell . |
| 10 | Frau Nordern agreed that he probably had been . |
| 11 | No , what she found so overwhelmingly infuriating was that when he had enquired tactfully , some might say , whether she was tired , he clearly had been expecting her to say a polite ‘ yes ’ so that he could then suggest that she had an early night . |
| 12 | What she hated was the scorn lacing his recognition of the power he had held over her , then and now , although it occurred to her that he really had been considerate — merciful — in leaving her alone six years ago . |
| 13 | There was growing scepticism about an earlier reported attempt on Nevzorov 's life : on Dec. 12 , 1990 , he allegedly had been wounded by a gunman who had lured him to a rendezvous in a Leningrad street by offering him sensitive documents . |
| 14 | Whilst Richard Baxter was visiting his sick father in Shropshire , Mr. Baldwin came to him with the news that he too had been forbidden to preach . |
| 15 | He too had been strictly brought up but seems to have shrugged off his mother 's influence in that as easily as he resisted her attempts to make him a practising Jew . |
| 16 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 17 | He too had been at Oxford , studying Science , and he was another of the twelve prize recruits who marched away from the City of Dreaming Spires . |
| 18 | The wound was salved a little when Olivier sent word that he too had been accused of ‘ lacking inches ’ in the same role and by the same critic ! |
| 19 | Like Graham and Sabrina he too had been left a holdall , containing a Geiger-Muller counter and his favourite handgun , a Browning Mk2 , in a locker at the main railway station where he had spent three hours studiously checking the invoices for all the freight loaded at the goods yard over the past ten days . |
| 20 | He too had been a Governor , representing Manchester University between 1955 and 1969 , and had been knighted in 1976 . |
| 21 | He too had been educated at Stowe — although he was three years older — and like Branson he turned an understanding of Sixties culture to profitable advantage . |
| 22 | He too had been waiting , he thought , but he had not realized before that it was for Cora-Beth . |
| 23 | He too had been influenced by Lyell , and as early as 1855 had published a paper commenting on the fact that new species always seemed to appear in the same neighbourhood as a closely related existing species . |
| 24 | Karl-Heinz Kretschmer resigned as the ( CDU ) deputy Minister President of Brandenburg following accusations that he too had been involved with the Stasi , and two PDS deputies in the Saxony-Anhalt parliament , Gunter Scholz and Rolf Funda , resigned their seats for the same reason on the recommendation of the party . |
| 25 | I discovered when I later spoke with Geoffrey that he too had been persuaded to stand by Humphrey Atkins . |
| 26 | I rang Bunny because he too had been at university with me , though , funnily enough , I did n't really know him until later . |
| 27 | He let her go as if he too had been dragged down by past memories . |
| 28 | The other man was found dead nearby , he too had been shot in what may have been a drugs related killing . |
| 29 | He never had been capable of self-delusion which , in sprightlier moments , he thought might have been the true cause of his notable lack of advancement in politics . |
| 30 | Laura reckons , ’ she continued , a salacious gleam in her toffee-brown eyes , ‘ old Po-face-that 's what they all calls him cos he never smiles-had been having it off with that secretary for weeks . |