Example sentences of "he had [been] [verb] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been met by the Defence Ministry people , who had taken him directly from the aircraft steps , but no one had said a word on the way into the city . |
| 2 | According to Trubin , he had been implicated in the plot by SCSE members in custody . |
| 3 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 4 | The story was , that unused to concealing money about his person , he had been robbed on the train and had had to return home . |
| 5 | Up to then he had been supported by the British Council , who now passed the buck to Bloomsbury House . |
| 6 | Since he 'd arrived at Montpelier Square he had been listening for the slightest movement elsewhere in the flat . |
| 7 | George Underwood : ‘ It was all instigated by David really , because he had been listening to the World Service on the radio and suddenly got the bug to get involved in American Football , and he wrote to the American Embassy asking for more information . |
| 8 | Obviously he had been listening to the battle . |
| 9 | He looked as though he had been there for some time , and Shelley had a funny feeling that he was looking studiously down to hide the fact that he had been listening at the door to her conversation with Mrs Richards . |
| 10 | He had been listening from the doorway ; now he marched into the room and glared at Mr Evans , his eyes hot with anger . |
| 11 | He had been sent to the school when a small child and had not heard from them since . |
| 12 | He would have had to herd with less congenial characters than gamblers if he had been sent to The Fleet or the Marshalsea . |
| 13 | His father , Robert Robinson , 58 , of Sidney Street , Saltcoats , claimed that an injection given to his son in hospital by a senior doctor killed him and if he had been sent to the neurosurgery unit at the Southern General in Glasgow he would have still been alive . |
| 14 | And afterwards , he admitted he had been inspired by the special atmosphere of the unique Monte Carlo street circuit . |
| 15 | After the Guardian pointed out on December 8 that Kingfisher did indeed face a prima facie competition problem , he told another newspaper that during his 1986 bid for the then Woolworths , he had been obliged by the OFT to pre-sell Comet to Granada to avoid a monopolies investigation . |
| 16 | Where damage is caused to a visitor by a danger of which he had been warned by the occupier , the warning is not to be treated without more as absolving the occupier from liability , unless in all the circumstances it was enough to enable the visitor to be reasonably safe . |
| 17 | Although he had not actually seen her , he had been assured by the surgeon that she is doing well . |
| 18 | King Hussein , who had resisted calls from Moslem Brotherhood members of parliament and leftists to boycott the conference , said in an emotional speech on Oct. 12 at a conference of 2,500 elected officials in Amman that he had been assured by the USA that it would " do its utmost " to see that a transitional period of Palestinian " autonomy " in the occupied territories would be negotiated within a year of the conference opening , and announced Jordan 's unconditional acceptance of US terms for the proposed Middle East peace conference . |
| 19 | Seed catalogues and bee magazines had not arrived even though he had been assured by the companies involved that they were sent . |
| 20 | At ten past eight that evening , when he ran downstairs to answer his outer doorbell and found her on the doorstep , it was as if he had been kicked in the stomach . |
| 21 | Then , in the same gentle tone she had heard Travis use when he had been speaking to the woman he loved , he murmured , ‘ Leith , my darling , I just ca n't keep it to myself any longer — do you mind ? ’ |
| 22 | He had been shot through the head . |
| 23 | Like Valesio , he had been shot through the mouth , but this time the only sign of damage was a single discreet exit wound in the back of the neck . |
| 24 | The Soviet police concluded that he had been shot in the stomach by his dog as he tried to free it from a trap ( Reuters , etc , 6 March 1992 ) . |
| 25 | When it was heard that he had been shot in the legs at the time of his arrest , the reporters assured their readers that the general view of the British people was , ‘ A pity they did n't aim a bit higher . ’ |
| 26 | The victim had then chased the boy and caught him , before realising that he had been shot in the arm , which once more suggests that it can not have been a terribly powerful weapon . |
| 27 | He looked as if he had been shot in the chest . |
| 28 | He had been stopped by the police several times for driving too slowly . |
| 29 | Like Rey and others , he had been dismissed from the Paris Conservatoire in 1802 after various disagreements . |
| 30 | Then Candy brought forward a witness who assured police he had been drinking with the prisoner in the Star , another central Reading public house , at the time of the murder . |