Example sentences of "[num] he had [be] [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was known to Charles too , for in 832 he had been installed as king there , briefly , at Limoges . |
| 2 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 3 | By 1985 he had been relegated to a place in the wings while his wife , now a media star , glowed . |
| 4 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 5 | Since 1171 he had been negotiating with Count Humbert of Maurienne . |
| 6 | On March 7 he had been suspended from the House of Commons for 20 days after the Commons select committee on members ' interests had on Feb. 19 upheld two allegations against him of failing to declare business dealings in the register of MPs ' interests . |
| 7 | At the end of January 1916 he had been transferred in great secrecy from Douai to Jametz north of Verdun , to take part in the ‘ aerial barrage ’ . |
| 8 | Thus , if the taxpayer can show that in year 1 he had been assessed under s739 on the £100,000 which accrued to the trust then the trustees are able either in that year or in subsequent years to pay the monies out without any tax charge under s742(2) ( c ) . |
| 9 | He claimed that after 1987 he had been blackmailed by Papandreou into channelling interest on deposits from public corporations into Pasok election funds . |
| 10 | The Magistrate hesitated , stroking those terrible , radical , flaring whiskers of his … since he had shouted himself hoarse as a young man in 1832 he had been devoted to the radical cause , a supporter of Chartism , of factory reform , and of every other progressive notion which crossed his path . |
| 11 | In October 1906 he went to Trinity Hall , Cambridge , and left in March 1909 , having taken no examinations ; on 6 December 1907 he had been received into the Catholic Church by R. Hugh Benson [ q.v . ] . |
| 12 | And in the 1930s he had been unforgiving towards these friends of his youth . |
| 13 | Born in the 1880s he had been educated in Switzerland long before Reza Shah 's establishment of a dynasty in his own name , and had been exiled to the north-east of Iran . |
| 14 | But by 1646 he had been deprived of his parish and in 1648 he was expelled from Christ Church . |
| 15 | He also told us how he had nourished the fire of hate inside him , ever since as a child of seven he had been spat upon by a white man . |
| 16 | At the age of seven he had been put on a ship to Britain , kissed by his mother and sisters , shaken hands with by his Pop , and banished from their sight for the next eleven years , save two brief holidays . |
| 17 | In February 1988 he had been indicted by a Miami grand jury for having conspired between 1981 and 1986 with the Medellín drugs cartel of Colombia to traffick drugs into the USA . |
| 18 | While on the Justice Department 's payroll he had named 216 ‘ Communists ’ ; in 1950–1 he had been employed by the FBI — at $70 a month — to inform on the US Communist Party ; and one of his early ( 1952 ) journalistic outings had been to write ‘ Reds in khaki ’ for the American Legion Magazine . |
| 19 | ( In 1910 he had been elected as Henley 's Member of Parliament ) . |
| 20 | In November 1990 he had been arrested in connection with a protest by women in Riyadh against a ban on women drivers . |