Example sentences of "he had [be] [noun] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been Head of Modern Languages since 1920 , and was due to retire in five months ' time . |
| 2 | He had been king for two and a half years , and he was aged by ten . |
| 3 | Spencer 's conduct at the new Debtors ' Prison in Whitecross Street , where in 1828 he had been keeper for six years , was the subject of a Memorial from James Neild 's Thatched House Society to the Lord Mayor and Court of Aldermen of the City of London . |
| 4 | A veteran politician , he had been Minister of Labour also during the " hot autumn " of 1969 [ see p. 23941 ] . |
| 5 | He had been runner-up on several occasions during his 20 years with Smith , but it was Sheelagh Boon 's six-year-old Smart Move who gave him his first win when taking the Senior Newcomers Championship . |