Example sentences of "he [vb past] been the [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He was glad that Sigarup had come , because up to now he 'd been the only patient staying and , alone at night , he was terrified of ghosts — of the restless souls of all the people who must have died there , far from their homes and families . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd been the main front-man each evening . |
| 3 | And , of course , she 'd seen him before ; he 'd been the third man on the commission that had interviewed her , the one who 'd sat next to the Cheka 's doctor and who 'd listened to her slurred responses without ever saying anything . |
| 4 | Rufus could not remember the man 's name , only that he had been the second visitor to Wyvis Hall , the gardener being the first . |
| 5 | Sheppard , already famous as ‘ the radio parson ’ — he had been the first person to broadcast a church service — was Canon of St Pauls . |
| 6 | He had been the first serf-owner to take advantage of the reformist Law on Obligated Peasants . |
| 7 | Once he had been The First Hand Supreme in all Chung Kuo , Master of Masters and eight times winner of the great annual championship held in Suchow . |
| 8 | Niall might be free as far as the law was concerned , but he had been the injured party , the one left to pick up the pieces when the woman he must have loved walked out . |
| 9 | He had been the injured party when his marriage broke up and , in spite of everything , it was all too clear that he still retained strong feelings for the woman he had married . |
| 10 | Of the two doctors it was undoubtedly Dr Dunstaple who had the largest number of adherents ; he had been the civil surgeon in Krishnapur for some years and was known to everyone as a kindly and paternal man . |
| 11 | I knew now that I might have been foolish to have expected so much from Waite , but he had been the only person who 'd been willing to treat both kidnappers and hostages as human beings and to attempt some kind of understanding about how the situation could be resolved . |
| 12 | Barton saluted ( he had been the smallest soldier in the army ) , and took a cab back to the conference , closely followed by Amaranth . |
| 13 | He had been the brightest pupil at the Athenaeum , the Glasgow School of Music . |
| 14 | A few years earlier he had been the undisputed master of the empire : two hundred thousand of his warriors had paraded before him while a hundred thousand others guarded the marches of the north or fought the Somalis in the deserts to the east . |
| 15 | He felt annoyed at first but then he realized that he was running far better than he had been the previous day and that he was n't even trying . |
| 16 | My master was still asleep , as he had been the previous evening when I returned from my love tryst . |
| 17 | He had been the medical officer and acting medical superintendent at the Bedford Institution for 28 years ( as well as holding the post of assistant surgeon at the County Hospital from 1920 until he resigned in July 1924 , when he was replaced by Dr. W. H. Miller ) . |
| 18 | He had taken some comfort from the fact that he had been the last man to board the cage , so at least he could watch Yorky and the others exit , before his turn came . |
| 19 | As far as everyone knew , he had been the last person to see Zambia at the Club . |
| 20 | The doctor was n't the only security failure in West German intelligence , but he had been the last straw for Sims . |
| 21 | His name in those far-off days had not been Fedorov ; he had been the youngest son of a noble family , with high hopes of a distinguished military career . |
| 22 | Thus , in 1969 he had been the main Cabinet instrument of dissent in rejecting Wilson and Mrs Castle 's proposed statutory incomes policy . |