Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] [prep] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 3 | He had been born in one of the hideous concrete blocks of flats erected after the Great Patriotic War . |
| 4 | He had been born in 1829 , the year of Catholic Emancipation . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 9 | Essentially the case involved a youth leader of the Red Cross , who admitted joining the Red Cross to bring him closer to young girls , whom he had been abusing for thirty years . |
| 10 | He remained until 1978 president of the European Broadcasting Union , a post to which he had been elected in 1973 and which he greatly treasured . |
| 11 | By now he was of an age to make his own decisions , the first of which was to marry the English girl to whom he had been engaged for two years . |
| 12 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
| 13 | A year later , having received only part of the sum owed to him , Edward III demanded and got more : all that he had been ceded in 1358 , to which were added Normandy , Maine , Anjou , and Touraine , also in full sovereignty . |
| 14 | The reality of Gloucester 's influence there is also reflected in the fact that , of all the master foresterships he had been granted in 1471 , the only two he seems to have exercised were those which best complemented this trans-Pennine interest : Bowland to the north and Rossendale further south . |
| 15 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
| 16 | The reality of Gloucester 's influence there is also reflected in the fact that , of all the master foresterships he had been granted in 1471 , the only two he seems to have exercised were those which best complemented this trans-Pennine interest : Bowland to the north and Rossendale further south . |
| 17 | Gloucester gave up all the Suffolk manors which he had been granted in 1471 and individual manors elsewhere , including Castle Hedingham and Earl 's Colne ( Essex ) , receiving in return further de Vere land scattered over five counties . |
| 18 | He had been retired since 1979 after completing 42 years ' service — 12 of them on the main board . |
| 19 | He said that he had been charged with 10 counts of breaking police regulations by talking to reporters about police brutality . |
| 20 | He had been treated for nine months in one hospital and two months in another , and had returned home with recurrent dislocation of one knee and an un-united fracture of the other thigh . |
| 21 | A post mortem showed he had been hit by five bullets and had also been struck by a number of shotgun pellets . |
| 22 | Roddy Lou Thai was not pleased at all to be questioned by two representatives of the repressive Imperialist Government , under whose chauvinistic wing he had been living for four years . |
| 23 | Zahir Shah said that he was ready to assume his " moral duty " to return to Afghanistan ; he had been deposed in 1973 by a cousin . |
| 24 | The extraordinary thing was that the man who was begging me to go and tell the world about this was expecting at any moment to hear that he had been appointed to one of the most senior jobs in the Iraqi government . |
| 25 | He had been sentenced to 25 years ' imprisonment in March 1961 . |
| 26 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 27 | It was probably around this time that he left the household of his cousin Richard Neville earl of Warwick , where he had been placed in 1465 . |
| 28 | Under cross-examination he denied his evidence was tainted by any bitterness he held for British soldiers because he had been jailed in 1968 for five years in Manchester for assault . |
| 29 | When Karin Obholzer interviewed him , he had been locked into one of these for over 10 years . |
| 30 | He died , ‘ a wasted skeleton ’ , 4 August 1818 in Galway , where he had been befriended by two black soldiers of the 77th Regiment . |