Example sentences of "he had [be] [prep] a [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had been on a life-support machine since the attack . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | If he had been in a sorry state , if he had needed anything , then she could have helped him , perhaps eventually told him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | To find a job he had to hide the fact that he had been in a mental hospital . |
| 9 | He had been in a persistent vegetative state since being crushed in the Hillsborough disaster on April 15 , 1989 . |
| 10 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He had been in an ebullient mood , enjoying the superb weather and the lazy , carefree atmosphere which pervaded the busy cafe . |
| 13 | Um , said Tor , but then went on to explain that only a week or two before he had been within a hundred metres or so of a school of orca . |
| 14 | And Sam Spiro — he had been like a lost soul since his wife died . |