Example sentences of "had [been] involved [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Herbie Connors was the local water bailiff who had been involved in a personal battle of wits with Yanto ever since his return home from the war . |
| 2 | The police suspected that Samuel had been involved in a serious armed robbery at a building society in Birmingham . |
| 3 | In particular , Nestlé and Suchard had been involved in a similar takeover battle for the ownership of Cote d'Or , the Belgian chocolate company , during 1987 . |
| 4 | A number of these had been involved in a similar coup attempt in July 1989 when a smaller group of rebels briefly gained control of the radio station . |
| 5 | Then he had spoilt it by saying that his reasons for leaving Australia had been personal , and she had assumed he had been involved in a similar situation to that with Jennifer . |
| 6 | He learned of the death of thousands of British troops who had been involved in a combined operation with the French against Kaiser Bill 's army . |
| 7 | Since the earliest days of their conversion to Christianity , Greek Christians had been involved in a creative effort to baptise their glorious past and to wed it to the originally semitic Christian experience . |
| 8 | Mr Jowett , who had a shotgun licence and took part in pheasant shooting , had been involved in a bizarre knife attack at his home four months earlier . |
| 9 | The Hamadan clan , like the Jafaars , had been involved in a losing struggle against the Syrian cartel ever since Rifat Assad and Monzer al-Kassar had taken over the Bekaa Valley in 1975 with the help of the Syrian Army . |