Example sentences of "he had [be] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time that he had been past the big covered back porch of her house , and everything was new and interesting . |
| 2 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 3 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 4 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 5 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 6 | At Vladimir , Holly had been categorized as a foreigner , he had been on the second floor of the hospital block and allowed special food and privileges . |
| 7 | While Horsley had been cavorting about at Oxford , he had been on the first rung of an entirely different social ladder , as a solicitor 's clerk . |
| 8 | She had seen him on the telly — he had been on the early evening news tooting his trumpet . |
| 9 | Oh , I knew that that night I was in a very difficult position , if he had been on the public highway I could have taken him to the police station and taken him |
| 10 | For many years , he had been on the local council . |
| 11 | The rush was over by then , so I had time to listen to him telling me how bored he had been with the monotonous life in Parma . |
| 12 | He had been with the British troops at the liberation of Belsen . |
| 13 | He had been for a second interview last Tuesday morning and had a nail biting few days till all was confirmed on Friday last for a start yesterday , 22nd March . |
| 14 | Since joining the BDDA he had been to every one of its Congresses and his inclusion as third member of this select trio was extremely popular . |
| 15 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 16 | When they met Minton asked Searle if he had been to the Royal Academy where The Death of Nelson was hanging in the Summer Exhibition . |
| 17 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 18 | He had been to the Top Rank entertainment centre in Reading when all the scientists had gathered one evening to formulate a demand for a 40 per cent pay rise . |
| 19 | He had been under the erroneous impression that Europe was just one big common market , similar in size to the United States , operating under free trade concepts , and with common laws , rules and regulations . |
| 20 | In his later career he was hard-working and respected , especially by those in whose interests he was acting , but not innovative , as he had been during the heroic period of sanitary reform . |
| 21 | He was happier than he had been during the seven bad years between 1976 and 1982 , still self-assured but now far more reasonable . |
| 22 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 23 | If he had been in a sorry state , if he had needed anything , then she could have helped him , perhaps eventually told him . |
| 24 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 25 | To find a job he had to hide the fact that he had been in a mental hospital . |
| 26 | He had been in a persistent vegetative state since being crushed in the Hillsborough disaster on April 15 , 1989 . |
| 27 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 28 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |
| 29 | He had been in an ebullient mood , enjoying the superb weather and the lazy , carefree atmosphere which pervaded the busy cafe . |
| 30 | so I 've shared a room with erm this chap Tom who was er he had been in the First World War and er though he seemed old to me at the time , I suppose he was probably in his thirties and erm he joined the Home Guard and erm lived , because he was bombed out where he lived in he moved out to Coptock had accommodation out there and er he was in the unit at Coptock and so that used to take up quite a bit of his time and other erm members of staff were , of course also had fire watching and erm various civil defence activities , quite apart from the work on the A R P shifts . |