Example sentences of "that he had been [adj] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | He did n't say so , but it was evident that he had been successful in the sheepdog trials , because he was unusually cheerful and forthcoming and he seemed quite jubilant to meet them there . |
| 2 | However , on his return to Hong Kong on April 8 he indicated to reporters that he had been unsuccessful in his attempt to win Chinese approval for the project . |
| 3 | Mr Beaton told the court that he had been asleep in his cab when two men with Glasgow accents woke him up by placing a bag over his head . |
| 4 | Therefore in borderline cases the prosecution might have to rely on the severity of injury and damage , or the noise of the accident , to help prove to the court beyond all reasonable doubt that the driver must have realised that he had been involved in an accident . |
| 5 | All we know of him was that he had been involved in RAF mountain rescue in Anglesey , and had quite recently been on a posting in Lincolnshire . |
| 6 | Though he had his doubts about al-Megrahi — his ‘ answers to questions were not always convincing ’ — he found Fhimah ‘ a simple man , and it was hard to believe that he had been involved in a terrorist case . |
| 7 | The man said that he had been alone in a cell 4 metres by 5 metres , with only loudspeakers for company for a week . |
| 8 | The maid would have to be dismissed of course … the girl had brazenly admitted allowing Patrick back into the house , and Katherine was n't sure which annoyed her more — the fact that the boy had managed to creep back into the house or the fact that he had been alone in the girl 's bedroom . |
| 9 | It was not that he had been dilatory in his duty of interviewing all those sent to the camp who were in any way , minor or major , special . |