Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [adj] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I imagined Perkin threading along that trail at night , following the paint quite easily as he 'd been that way already in daylight , and being secretly pleased with himself because if he had inadvertently left any traces of his passage the first time they could be explained away naturally by the second . |
| 2 | Pulling the tabs on the thermal cans to heat up the food , she glanced over at him but he was exactly as he 'd been all day , close yet remote , unreachable . |
| 3 | He 'd been some kind of engineer . |
| 4 | I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton . |
| 5 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 6 | He had been warm-up man for the Pope on his tour of the Republic ; he was always on Irish radio and television . |
| 7 | Since 1954 he had been Second Master , filling this difficult position with meticulous efficiency and good humour , qualities which also marked his teaching . |
| 8 | Although he was a fully qualified pilot , he never to my knowledge ( certainly not whilst he was with No 7 Squadron ) was ever captain of an aircraft ; he had been second pilot , or flown as mid- upper , or rear gunner or had taken some other crew function , but at the same time he would be researching and demonstrating some aspect of a project that he was currently engaged with at the Institute . |
| 9 | He was a national hero , he had been Supreme Commander in South East Asia during the Second World War , the last Viceroy and first Governor General of India , first Sea Lord , and finally Chief of the Defence Staff . |
| 10 | He had been Private Secretary to my uncle when he was Viceroy , and later Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier of India before he went to the Sudan . |
| 11 | These were papers , filling two volumes , left unpublished at Hunter 's death , which Owen dedicated to the Royal College of Surgeons , where from 1837 he had been Hunterian Professor . |
| 12 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 13 | The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 . |
| 14 | ‘ What would he want a word about ? ’ she questioned hostilely , wanting him to be gentle as he had been that morning . |
| 15 | Josh Gifford , for whom he had been first jockey before his illness and who had assured him that his position as stable jockey would be waiting for him as soon as he had recovered . |
| 16 | She climbed down , aware suddenly of how close he was to her , closer than he had been all morning , and when she turned , it was to find him looking down at her , a strange expression in his eyes . |
| 17 | He had been chief executive of Glaxo — and ironically had been responsible for selling Evans to its management . |
| 18 | He had been chief engineer to the Central Electricity Board , and would have preferred the division of duties to have left the control of generation and transmission to the ex-CEB engineers and himself . |
| 19 | He had been vice president , Digital Services . |
| 20 | He had been vice president and general manager of OEM Division there for five years . |
| 21 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 22 | He had been Prime Minister for nearly seven years in all when he produced that judgement . |
| 23 | He had been Prime Minister for eight years and 241 days . |
| 24 | He had been temporary chargé d'affaires at the Netherlands embassy in Baghdad from September to October 1990 , but the Tunisian Foreign Ministry on March 1 said that initial investigations suggested no political motives . |
| 25 | He had been senior consultant engineer at the company 's System Research Center in Palo Alto , California . |
| 26 | He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge . |
| 27 | He had been Conservative Party whip and leader of the House of Commons . |
| 28 | ‘ And that 's where he had been this time ? ’ |
| 29 | He had been local organiser for the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers but in 1952 he led a breakaway which two years later merged with the ITGWU . |
| 30 | He had been o– form lately . |