Example sentences of "he had [be] [prep] [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been at such pains . |
| 2 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 3 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 4 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 5 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
| 6 | His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years . |
| 7 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 8 | He had been in other worlds beside Ridgery Butts , the Yorkshire Dales and the long miles between , and thieving and creeping and running and looking after himself ; but Marian knew only the Ridgery and remembered very faintly some other sort of life , a memory of glints and patches of a different sort of sunlight . |
| 9 | One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships . |
| 10 | He had been round 18 holes at Wentworth , if only on a buggy , and spent an hour in the weights room working on his upper body . |