Example sentences of "[vb past] that he had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | After some weeks , Paisley reported that he had been unable to persuade the speaker of the House of Commons to allow the Black case to be raised in an adjournment debate and that he was pessimistic of having it raised in Parliament in any other form . |
| 2 | He realised that he had been foolish to risk the search alone , but there was no turning back . |
| 3 | In a reflective article for the February 1991 issue of Life magazine , Atwater admitted that he had been one of the " most ardent practitioners " of negative campaigning tactics as manager of Bush 's 1988 presidential election campaign against Michael Dukakis . |
| 4 | Mr Reynolds admitted that he had been afraid to eat or drink because of the possible effects on his bowel and bladder . |
| 5 | Moreover , the head claimed that he had been able to use the appraisal to make a strong case against a proposed reduction of 7.4 staff , in line with cutbacks planned by the LEA due to falling rolls and reductions in spending . |
| 6 | His decision was appealed and the parents claimed that he had been wrong to interpret the 1976 act in such a way as to exclude any case where a claim was made in respect of a person who was born alive but who died from ante-natal injury . |
| 7 | They next claimed that he had been responsible for a murder in Belfast which had received considerable publicity . |
| 8 | Andrew remarked that he had been involved with such a ceremony previously , when the opening of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway had been re-enacted on the Brecon Mountain Railway for one of his programmes . |
| 9 | The man said that he had been alone in a cell 4 metres by 5 metres , with only loudspeakers for company for a week . |
| 10 | He said that he had been alone on the platform of Grahamston station shortly after midnight waiting to meet a friend on an Edinburgh-bound train . |