Example sentences of "he had [been] in a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If he had been in a sorry state , if he had needed anything , then she could have helped him , perhaps eventually told him . |
| 2 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 3 | To find a job he had to hide the fact that he had been in a mental hospital . |
| 4 | He had been in a persistent vegetative state since being crushed in the Hillsborough disaster on April 15 , 1989 . |
| 5 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 6 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |