Example sentences of "and he [verb] be " in BNC.
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| 1 | He says that he is clean now ; Issy and him have been off the stuff for five whole days . |
| 2 | Even young Mr Yardley had to be a possibility , if Mrs Doran was right and he had been ‘ hanging around ’ the tent instead of pursuing job opportunities in Burford . |
| 3 | Young Donald — his eyes were clear black-brown , like a lochan stained with peat , his hair was curly like a bull 's poll , and he had been a lovely lad until his father went away , clever with his hands , whittling pieces of wood and glueing them to make little windmills and watermills . |
| 4 | And he had been right . |
| 5 | It was imperative , as he knew , not to get embroiled in politics , and he had been utterly furious when it appeared that architect Rod Hackney had done it for him . |
| 6 | 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 . ’ |
| 7 | And he had been perfectly justified , he assured himself smugly , in cancelling their holiday plans at once — she had never been going to get back on time . |
| 8 | He had heard their scurrying feet and noisy squeaks , and he had been forced to nip his nostrils closed against their foul stench . |
| 9 | But North insisted at the hearings that not everybody had scorned it , and certainly it sounded plausible enough to O'Boyle ; it was a state secret , and he had been allowed to share it . |
| 10 | He was English and he had been very clever . |
| 11 | Now his hunting rifle had lost a piece from its firing mechanism and he had been unable to replace it . |
| 12 | Konstantin Charsky was a poet like herself , but much better known , and he had been able to gather quite a few western books . |
| 13 | The class had taken a whole afternoon to find him buried beneath his precious collection and he had been more concerned about his stones than himself . |
| 14 | The terrorist had hands identical to those of Louis and he had been a psychopath . |
| 15 | That had been in the first exhilarating days of their relationship , and he had been elated at their evident approval of her . |
| 16 | His name , he said , was Shlomo Green and he had been a refugee from Romania . |
| 17 | He was a Lebanese Muslim and he had been given the gun by the Palestinians who were sitting on the side of the broken street , sipping their own glasses of tea . |
| 18 | Garbo , Garland , Gardner , Garson and Gable were there — and that was just the Gs — but the old grey Mayer was n't what he used to be , and he had been ousted from MGM by the time Nicholson arrived as a messenger boy . |
| 19 | ACSS was set up by himself and interested friends five years before and he had been working on it since . |
| 20 | His nature had been over-mature and he had been focused so much on his career that he had never had a great deal of time for his family . |
| 21 | There had been calls for the removal , even the court-martialling , of the general concerned , but the army had defended the latter and he had been allowed to complete the campaign . |
| 22 | The sympathetic voices preferred to argue that Charlie 's champagne bubble had burst and he had been smitten by the sentimental Scottish condition called homesickness . |
| 23 | We had indeed , and Denis was in a filthy mood because his motorbike had died on him on the way into Cambridge and he had had to push it five miles back — and he had been taking his temper out on me ever since lunchtime . |
| 24 | John 's father , Sir William Herschel , was the discoverer of the planet Uranus in 1781 , and he had been firmly convinced of the possibility of life on other worlds . |
| 25 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 26 | Said his wife had been in need of a holiday and he had been unable to get away . |
| 27 | Allen had been interested in the sack ; she had seen him stooping where the sack was hidden and he had been doing something with it . |
| 28 | From his point of view he had asked to go to see the gorillas and he had been told ‘ Yes ’ . |
| 29 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 30 | In fairness to Sarah he had wanted to devote a whole day to her , but the pressure of his work had made it impossible , and he had been forced to settle for an afternoon wedding , following a Governors ' meeting , so that he and his bride could depart for Chertsey on the last train . |