Example sentences of "he had [adv] [be] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As he had already been interviewed four times and been in police custody for over 24 hours , the expectation would be that a solicitor might well consider that , at least for that evening , enough was enough and that he ought to advise his client not to answer further questions … . |
| 2 | Held , dismissing the appeal , that to sustain a plea of autrefois convict a defendant had to prove not only that he had already been found guilty of the offence charged by a court of competent jurisdiction , either by the decision of the court or verdict of the jury or entry of his own plea of guilty , but also that the court had finally disposed of the case by passing sentence or making some other order ; that since the proceedings on the first indictment had been discontinued before sentence had been passed there had been no final adjudication and the defendant had properly been convicted on the second indictment ; but that , in all the circumstances , particularly having regard to the lapse of time between trial and determination of the appeal to the Judicial Committee , it would be appropriate for the death sentence to be commuted ( post , pp. 931D–E , 935H ) . |
| 3 | He had clearly been sobbing fit to burst , but he was now past that . |
| 4 | He had reportedly been given personal details of Danish citizens abroad who had died and was thought to have used these to obtain false papers ; his source , a Copenhagen city official , had been arrested . |
| 5 | Yet he had never been assigned any lands from which he might maintain himself and his Queen in their proper estate . |
| 6 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 7 | The hon. Member for Stockton , North said that , when he had only been going two minutes , Richard Holt was already on his feet challenging him . |
| 8 | If so , he had certainly been working later than usual . |
| 9 | He had long been reported ill with kidney problems and was rumoured to have had throat cancer . |