Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been swept along by Tommy 's drunken madness . |
| 2 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 3 | The deputy was a Socialist , he had been speaking out against the old work conditions that were being reimposed . |
| 4 | He had been shot down in September , 194O . |
| 5 | Suddenly he heard a clattering noise and his cockpit filled with smoke , the controls going dead — he had been shot down by Oblt . |
| 6 | The pilot survived the crash , but further investigation found that a month later he had been shot down by enemy fighters 12 miles off Etaples , Northern France , again flying a Tomahawk . |
| 7 | But a day had come in the Sixties when he was in one of the elephant houses and was staring up at an elephant as it walked neurotically round and round its tiny area when a sudden memory of some of the places he had been kept in during the war had come to him ; no space , no freedom , no life . |
| 8 | Kim had been on the Wiring Project for almost year now , though for most of that time he had been kept out of things by Spatz . |
| 9 | If she could say playfully , in public , that he had been fiddling about with one design for three years , their conversations on his work in private must have been explosive . |
| 10 | I listened with interest to my hon. Friend the Member for Stamford and Spalding ( Mr. Davies ) , who almost conveyed the impression that he had been parachuted in to an Amazonian jungle in which democratic accountability plays no role , and that we needed the benefit of a judgment on arbitrage and merger policy from New York city . |
| 11 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 12 | He had been looking down into her face , lit by the candle he carried , but some sound had turned his eyes to the back of the hall . |
| 13 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 14 | Later , relatives of another polio victim told the Derry Journal that he had been beaten up by a group of policemen when he went to buy cigarettes on the evening of Sunday 6 October . |
| 15 | Four hours later he had been beaten down to £2,900 . |
| 16 | When he had broached the subject — tentatively — he had been turned down with surprising sharpness . |
| 17 | A BITTER David Gower blasted England 's selectors last night after he was virtually the last to hear he had been tossed back into the cricketing wilderness . |
| 18 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 19 | The sea breeze was strong enough to mould the skirts of passing women , and Grunte , who could remember little of the events of the night , save that he had spent a good deal of money feeding the faces of his party faithful ( ‘ Pity about Hyacinth ’ ) , and that he had been seen back to the Grand after a drink or two by Leroy Burns ( ‘ Grand fellow , must see if I ca n't find him another Sierra ’ ) , gave thought to his pending performance . |
| 20 | He had a really nice family — he had a very good relationship with his wife — he was very bright , he enjoyed life , he read a lot , he had been teaching up until a month before hospitalization , and he had the will to live … |
| 21 | Searle was not the only person at this time to conclude that since the Lefevre Gallery had told Minton ‘ Moons are out ’ , he had been searching round for new solutions which visits abroad solved only temporarily . |
| 22 | But he had never seen Tara ; he had been abandoned at birth , he had been flung out by the King , who would have none of his Queen 's bastard wolfson at his Court . |
| 23 | It alleged that he had been fitted out with a secret transmitter on one of his missions to Lebanon , to pinpoint the exact location of the hostages and kidnappers . |
| 24 | But he found that the job that awaited him there was several rungs lower than the job he had been holding down in the UK . |
| 25 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 26 | Before his last throw of the dice he had been hanging on at Etten in hopes of a visit from Mauve , who had half promised to come and initiate him into ‘ the mysteries of the palette ’ . |
| 27 | He had been escorted back to the Vicarage by a plainclothes officer , not the one who had been working most closely with Commander Dalgliesh , but an older man , broad-shouldered , stolid , reassuringly calm , who had spoken to him in a soft country accent which he could n't recognize but was most certainly not local . |
| 28 | We now suspect he had been written off by both the consul and the Spanish authorities at an early stage . |
| 29 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 30 | He had been pointing out of the window and asking me if I liked the weather or the colour of the cows . |