Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 2 | Dauntless cursed the ballot through which he had been burdened with this particular region to patrol . |
| 3 | He had been lampooned by contemporary dramatists . |
| 4 | This was Peter Lorre 's first film but he had been acting for ten years in a career which had begun with his running away from home at the age of 15 and which bore many similarities to the careers of other American and European actors who had arrived in Hollywood already . |
| 5 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 6 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 7 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 8 | Recently , however , he had been criticized by fellow Republicans as ineffective at a time when education was increasingly achieving national prominence as a key domestic issue . |
| 9 | A staunch ally of President Soares , he had been criticized by political opponents of Soares for his soft handling of relations with China . |
| 10 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 11 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 12 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 13 | He had been born in one of the hideous concrete blocks of flats erected after the Great Patriotic War . |
| 14 | He had been born in 1829 , the year of Catholic Emancipation . |
| 15 | And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 . |
| 16 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 17 | He had been experimenting with dental floss , which was multi-stranded but then broke when rubbed against rocks or weeds . |
| 18 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
| 19 | At the end of his visit Hogg said that he had been assured by Lebanese leaders that all three British hostages in Lebanon were alive . |
| 20 | If you read a few er , verses , a chapter or so earlier on , he had been speaking to one man to a er er a high official from Ethiopia , and he had been sharing with him from Isaiah chapter fifty three , the message of Jesus Christ . |
| 21 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 22 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 23 | He had been dealing with human nature all his life ; he should have been able to recognise the symptoms before now . |
| 24 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |
| 25 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 26 | His hair , untended , curled thick as a dog 's at his neck under a shapeless wool cap , and his mind was turned patently inwards ; far from seeking , or even thinking of the men from whom he had been parted for six weeks . |
| 27 | Alexei had expected to be seated beside Tulagai and Targoutai , the half-brothers of Nogai and T'zin , but instead he had been led to this place beside Siban . |
| 28 | Every kind of reason for it went through her mind : the doctor had given him six months to live , his family was moving away from the area , he had been transferred to another school . |
| 29 | At the end of January 1916 he had been transferred in great secrecy from Douai to Jametz north of Verdun , to take part in the ‘ aerial barrage ’ . |
| 30 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |