Example sentences of "[pron] he had [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 2 | The panel also ruled that in relation to the convictions for accepting an illegal gratuity and for aiding and abetting the obstruction of Congress , the evidence should be re-examined " witness by witness , line by line and item by item " , in order to determine whether any of it had been " tainted " by North 's televised testimony to congressional investigating committees in 1987 for which he had been granted limited immunity . |
| 3 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 4 | But he was also a war hero who had commanded small ships in battles in the Channel , for which he had been awarded two DSC 's , and the son of Scott of the Antarctic who then , even more than now , was a national hero of mythic proportions in the eyes of most of us . |
| 5 | She had just come away from yet another meeting in which he had been waxing expansive about what he could do with her business . |
| 6 | When it was Meehan 's turn and they asked him what he had been doing that night , he said he had driven to Stranraer ( to case the motor taxation office , he admitted later ) with an Englishman called Jim Griffiths ; and they had come back via the outskirts of Ayr in the early hours of the morning . |