Example sentences of "his [noun] had [been] [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sandals had been scraped clean but they still looked pretty dingy . |
| 2 | The Preston North End boss celebrated his 44th birthday on Sunday but his fate had been sealed 24 hours earlier with the 2-0 home defeat against Hartlepool . |
| 3 | He was told that as he and his wife had been separated 15 months it was to be expected that she would find a new partner . |
| 4 | She 'd found her way to Charlie through another of the contact magazines , back in the days when his wife had been handling that end of the business ; she 'd had to send along a photograph and that had gone a little against the grain — in all of her moonlighting so far , she 'd never let slip so much as her name — but everything had worked out well . |
| 5 | When Kalchu came back his head had been shaved bald except for a short black tuft that arched out from the crown and drooped down behind . |
| 6 | Riven examined his leg and found that his boot had been ripped open like paper , but that his calf was only scratched . |
| 7 | Nor did he reimburse Alistair for the lunch , though he did explain that his wallet had been emptied that morning — by which alcoholic , Sixsmith never established . |
| 8 | He was pleased in a way that his advice had been proved good , but he did n't like the thought that a woman was catching up with him . |
| 9 | His father had been killed two years before , and Mallachy had been known to refer to him , with his grim-eyed smile , as some sort of hero , a victim of the UFF or someone like them . |
| 10 | He could n't understand why his father had been elected Burgermeister or the head of the theatre committee . |
| 11 | I asked , anxiously adding that his father had been taken ill . |
| 12 | Although he was chary of broaching the subject of a full-time shepherd , when he did so , he found that his father had been giving some thought to the matter . |
| 13 | His lordship had been entertaining two guests , a young lady and gentleman , in the summerhouse , and had watched my father 's approach across the lawn bearing a much welcome tray of refreshments . |
| 14 | Franco Boretti , a proud pet-owner from Sicily , was taken to court and given two fines amounting to the equivalent of 67p each after his dog had been found guilty of committing ‘ an obscene act in a public place ’ . |
| 15 | His mission had been planned two years ago when he worked well with stablemate Balthus , the 1987 Cambridgeshire winner , and Glover promises he has something else in the yard to continue the trend in two years . |
| 16 | As she stopped a few feet away from them she saw that his cap had been knocked some distance from where he lay and the force of the blow , which had thrown him through the air , had dislodged his fountain pen from his pocket . |
| 17 | It was a miraculous feeling — as though his soul had been crammed over-large inside his chest and was struggling to expand . |
| 18 | He had received numerous death threats from Sendero Luminoso and from the Rodrigo Franco Commandos since being elected in 1986 and had escaped three assassination attempts , and his house had been bombed several times in 1989 . |
| 19 | Without a photo-pass hanging from his left lapel , he was uncomfortably conspicuous ; his identity had been checked three times since Amaranth had dropped him . |