Example sentences of "he had been [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time that he had been past the big covered back porch of her house , and everything was new and interesting . |
| 2 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 3 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 4 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 5 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 6 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 7 | For many years , he had been on the local council . |
| 8 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 9 | He had been with the British troops at the liberation of Belsen . |
| 10 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 11 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 12 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 13 | He had been to the Top Rank entertainment centre in Reading when all the scientists had gathered one evening to formulate a demand for a 40 per cent pay rise . |
| 14 | He had been under the erroneous impression that Europe was just one big common market , similar in size to the United States , operating under free trade concepts , and with common laws , rules and regulations . |
| 15 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 16 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 17 | If he had been in a sorry state , if he had needed anything , then she could have helped him , perhaps eventually told him . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | To find a job he had to hide the fact that he had been in a mental hospital . |
| 20 | He had been in a persistent vegetative state since being crushed in the Hillsborough disaster on April 15 , 1989 . |
| 21 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had been in an ebullient mood , enjoying the superb weather and the lazy , carefree atmosphere which pervaded the busy cafe . |
| 24 | Still , however difficult he had been in the good days , when they were all riding high , he was still most certainly loyal . |
| 25 | He had been in the Little Chef restaurant in Bramley , near Rotherham , south Yorkshire , on Wednesday night , when a man suddenly pulled out a double- barrelled shotgun . |
| 26 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |
| 27 | And Sam Spiro — he had been like a lost soul since his wife died . |