Example sentences of "he had [be] [vb pp] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dauntless cursed the ballot through which he had been burdened with this particular region to patrol . |
| 2 | He had been lampooned by contemporary dramatists . |
| 3 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 4 | Recently , however , he had been criticized by fellow Republicans as ineffective at a time when education was increasingly achieving national prominence as a key domestic issue . |
| 5 | A staunch ally of President Soares , he had been criticized by political opponents of Soares for his soft handling of relations with China . |
| 6 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 7 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 8 | One night , long after the senator had chartered Wavebreaker , I had defended him to Ellen , saying that it was not Crowninshield 's fault that he had been born to wealthy parents , and that he had used his wealth well . |
| 9 | He had been born in one of the hideous concrete blocks of flats erected after the Great Patriotic War . |
| 10 | He had been born in 1829 , the year of Catholic Emancipation . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 13 | He had been earmarked for senior management and his posting to the US was intended to serve a double purpose . |
| 14 | At the end of his visit Hogg said that he had been assured by Lebanese leaders that all three British hostages in Lebanon were alive . |
| 15 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | Alexei had expected to be seated beside Tulagai and Targoutai , the half-brothers of Nogai and T'zin , but instead he had been led to this place beside Siban . |
| 18 | Every kind of reason for it went through her mind : the doctor had given him six months to live , his family was moving away from the area , he had been transferred to another school . |
| 19 | At the end of January 1916 he had been transferred in great secrecy from Douai to Jametz north of Verdun , to take part in the ‘ aerial barrage ’ . |
| 20 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | From childhood he had been fascinated by natural history , and at Cambridge he decided on a career which would enable him to combine medical research with his interest in comparative biology . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Northumbrian Water offices have received telephone inquiries and Labour 's Stuart Bell said he had been contacted by numerous people claiming they were having to pay more . |
| 25 | A few days before he was killed , José Miguel Mérida Escobar had reported to the Office of the Human Rights Procurator that , since the findings of his report became publicly known , he had been followed by unidentified armed men . |
| 26 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 27 | Malcolm had been told to expect a prison sentence , but the judge took pity on him , saying that he had been provoked by racial abuse from drunken louts . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | Shortly after liberation in 1945 , he married Peggy Whitall , to whom he had been engaged for seven years . |
| 30 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |