Example sentences of "he [vb past] been one [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | And I think behind him had been one of the older woodchucks and João the electrician , except they 'd made themselves scarce commodities . |
| 2 | He had slipped up in using Tweed 's name because it had sounded as though he 'd been one of the casualties . |
| 3 | A few years ago he had been one of the best-paid dancers in Flamenco . |
| 4 | After she had killed her father , he had been one of the interrogating officers . |
| 5 | He had been one of the founders of Lancashire Enterprise , started in the early 1980s by the controlling Labour Group on the county council , and financed by a 2p rate . |
| 6 | He had been one of the most energetic scourges of this sceptic isle , but once he was victim of a fatwah , he became an outspoken defender of the freedoms that are available in British cultural life . |
| 7 | As ‘ Lord Haw-Haw ’ he had been one of the most famous names of the Second World War . |
| 8 | Rabscuttle was full of tricks and games and quite soon he was running and playing just as if he had been one of the children himself . |
| 9 | Before the war , he had been one of the most prominent members of the Dock workers ' Guild , acting as principal deputy to their father , the Chairman , but after he was disabled and discharged from the army , he was forced to take other work , helping Florrie to run their Aunt Emily 's corner grocery shop . |
| 10 | He had been one of the most respected and admired deaf men of his time , and he was missed not only within the ranks of the BDDA but also of the NID , on whose executive committee he had served since its reorganisation in 1924 . |
| 11 | He he had been one of the principal Iranian liaisons with Kim Roosevelt and he had helped to organize the demonstrations in support of the Shah . |
| 12 | He had been one of the supporting players of the City , a Harmless Eccentric . |
| 13 | He had been one of the most influential members of Hong Kong 's financial community and was one of the most prominent figures ever tried in the colony . |
| 14 | On Aug. 15 , 1990 , Martin Kirchner , general secretary of the CDU , was suspended from office as a result of allegations that he had been one of the most senior paid informers of the Stasi . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | She told her brother that he had been one of the lucky ones , blown up by a land-mine , and only lost a toe — not even a big one , she teased . |