Example sentences of "he had [be] [prep] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 2 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 3 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 4 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 5 | His main interest was foreign and defence policy ( for a time he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , as he had been from 1940 to 1945 ) . |