Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he had been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After Enkidu 's death Gilgamesh wandered far and wide in his grief encountering among others the proverbial survivor of the great flood , Utnapishtim , who told him how he had been warned in a dream by a god of the imminent deluge , and instructed to build a great boat into which he was to take the seed of all living creatures . |
| 2 | Fury returned as he thought how he had been cheated of glory by a treacherous piece of turf , when it had not even been his turn to lead ! |
| 3 | DC Hemes told the inquest how he had been baffled by the case . |
| 4 | He described how he had been contracted by the CIA to fly to Aguacate , a Contra base in Honduras with 28,000 pounds of military equipment . |
| 5 | ‘ I asked him how he had been chosen for this honour and he told me ‘ I was pushed ’ ’ . |
| 6 | He told me how he had been deceived by a young man who claimed to be the son of a banker , and he had lost money in a gambling casino because he believed the con artist . |
| 7 | In October , in a similarly light-hearted vein , he recounted to Virginia Woolf how he had been sitting in the wings of the Westminster Theatre ( where Sweeney Agonistes was playing ) and , on another occasion , lighting fireworks in the company of John Hayward and W. H. Auden . |
| 8 | He told us how he had been encouraged by the responses received from the agri-food industry ever since he threw out a challenge to it some four months ago . |
| 9 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 10 | Now that Cadfael came to think of it , less than usual had been seen and heard of Jerome for the past few days , ever since the evening when he had been discovered on his bed , quaking and sick with bellyaches and headaches , and been soothed to sleep by Cadfael 's stomachics and syrups . |
| 11 | His arrest was part of a longstanding FBI investigation ; four of the charges on which he was indicted dated back to December 1988 when he had been discovered by police in a hotel room with a convicted drug dealer , Charles Lewis . |
| 12 | Lt.-Gen Rahman had held the post since August 1986 when he had been appointed in place of President Hussain Mohammad Ershad [ see p. 34812 ] . |
| 13 | That was when he had been joined with Jazzbeaux . |
| 14 | Witney 's fees of £6 13s. 4d. a year were paid in full until Michaelmas 1342 , but he was dead by 1347 , when he had been succeeded by William Joy . |
| 15 | The worst moment of all , he thought , had been at a quarter to nine that morning , when he had been roused from the bottom depths of heavy , dream-tangled sleep by the door bell , and when , having stumbled across the room , still not knowing where he was or what was happening , he had found Mrs. Mounce at the door , asking if she could do any shopping for them . |
| 16 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 17 | After switching codes at the age of 11 when he moved to senior school , he began life as a flanker and it was not until 1973 , when he had been playing for seven years , that he moved to tight-head prop . |
| 18 | Sometimes , when he had been sitting near the side of the boat , an ill-considered back cast sent him flying into the water ; and often it was a close run thing before I could get the landing net under his sodden frame . |
| 19 | He arrived in Canterbury on 27 May 669 , having been escorted from Gaul , where he had been staying with Agilbert , by a representative of King Ecgberht , not of Oswiu ( HE IV , 1 ) . |
| 20 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 21 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 22 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 23 | It had been damaged in an accident at the locomotive works where he had been employed in his youth . |
| 24 | Sometimes on Sundays he would take her to the fields where he had been helping with the harvest , to see the rabbits , or a nest of mice . |
| 25 | In 1910 , Tom Mann came back from Australia , where he had been engaged in political and trade union campaigning for the previous nine years . |
| 26 | Foreign Affairs Minister Inonga Lokonga L'Omé died on June 19 in South Africa , where he had been flown after suffering a stroke . |
| 27 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 28 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 29 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 30 | He died , ‘ a wasted skeleton ’ , 4 August 1818 in Galway , where he had been befriended by two black soldiers of the 77th Regiment . |