Example sentences of "he had been [art] [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Spending even this short amount of time with him had been a big mistake . |
| 2 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 3 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
| 4 | He had been a young man when she had met him back in 1898 . |
| 5 | He had been a young man , quite personable until someone slashed his throat . |
| 6 | At that time he had been a practising Catholic for two or three months . |
| 7 | Shaw spent most of his time on organization and records ; he was rarely involved directly in inquiries but he had been a first-class man on the ground . |
| 8 | Little wonder Roy Hattersley has now taken to the pages of the London Evening Standard , complaining that the glitz and the glamour hid the message — as though , somehow , he had been a disinterested spectator in the affair . |
| 9 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 10 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 11 | He had been a good nome in his way , they said . |
| 12 | He had been a good friend to her and when she walked out on her parents she had made straight for the bar , looking for him . |
| 13 | He claimed that he had been a valued ally of the US government but that President Bush had pursued a vendetta against him because he , Noriega , had refused to participate in efforts to overthrow the left-wing Sandinista government in Nicaragua . |
| 14 | He had been a successful stage actor in high school and college , a pioneer in the young radio business , a journeyman screen performer , a television personality , a speechmaker to audiences of all description , author of a syndicated newspaper column . ’ |
| 15 | He had been a successful prize fighter at the time and had the good sense to buy the Blue Boar from the proceeds of the noble art . |
| 16 | This was not entirely unexpected , as he had been a firm supporter of the project , and the union had put £7,000 into the earlier feasibility study , but it was still a useful bonus , and provided the sort of result NoS needed to wave around . |
| 17 | In a graveside address he said that he had been a political opponent of Allende , but that he was present to give his " testimony to the truth " . |
| 18 | It was n't that he was a good few years older than him or that , like Mick , he had been a working chap . |
| 19 | Those who did live there all knew Father McGiff and they were able to inform the ignorant that he had been a close friend of the Rabbi ever since the Jews had arrived in the city . |
| 20 | He accepted my apologies for my appearance and quickly put me at ease , saying he had been a close friend of my father and was delighted to meet his son . |
| 21 | When Sandison had last seen him he had been a sad figure , a man approaching old age , tired , dishevelled and drunk . |
| 22 | An Irish Catholic , raised in New York , he had been a gung-ho member of the OSS during the second world war . |
| 23 | He had been a raging success in Spain but was lured back to England by his namesake manager in the belief that his international prospects would be considerably improved . |
| 24 | He had been a raging success in Spain but was lured back to England by his namesake manager in the belief that his international prospects would be considerably improved . |
| 25 | If he had been a better negotiator , he would have closed the sale that day . |
| 26 | When he had come on the scene about fifteen years earlier he had been a spectacular hitter of a golf ball and a brilliant putter : a fearsome blend of talents in a golfer — if they combine regularly . |
| 27 | He felt that he had been a long time away . |
| 28 | Though indeed he had been a civil servant , Chambers was one of the foremost literary scholars in England . |
| 29 | ‘ I lost my father before I signed for Rangers and his death had a devastating effect on me since we had always been so close , and not simply because he had been a professional goalkeeper in his time , ’ Goram said . |
| 30 | A selection of such writings appeared posthumously as Essays in Jewish History ( 1934 ) under the auspices of the Jewish Historical Society of England , of which he had been a principal founder . |