Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] [art] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 2 | When , each morning of that first anxious week , Colonel de Barescut attended the sickbed at Souilly to report on the events of the previous night , he had been asked the same question : ‘ What 's new on the Left Bank ? ’ |
| 3 | This year , he had been offered the same opportunity , but at twice the price . |
| 4 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 5 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |