Example sentences of "he had [adv] [been] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | To eliminate him had also been to destroy a dream . |
| 2 | Her attraction to him had hardly been swathed in subtlety . |
| 3 | Everything people said about Kelly was supposition , nothing against him had ever been proved and in this country you were innocent until proven guilty . |
| 4 | He had probably been trying something far too fancy . |
| 5 | Supported by the local community , he had probably been selected by them , for his appointment by the Company included a note that he had been teaching since Michaelmas 1533 . |
| 6 | He told the details to an incredulous audience , although tactfully leaving out the part about Steinmark 's base habits , merely suggesting that he had probably been taking a short cut across the line . |
| 7 | He had probably been seen with Jesus in and around Jerusalem . |
| 8 | He watched Gerald Kaufman buy a copy of the Evening Standard ; he had probably been lunching with the BBC . |
| 9 | From over George 's shoulder stared the portrait of a general whose handling of an attack in the South African war had caused so many casualties to his own brigade that he had immediately been promoted away to see if he could do the same thing with divisions and corps . |
| 10 | Psst ! ’ then , ‘ Miss ! ’ and to see a young man stepping from the side of the coalhouse where he had evidently been waiting . |
| 11 | he had instead been cultivating his acquaintanceship with Mercer , a game plan that would have come to an abrupt end if the Lorrimores had deserted the trip , which they would have done at once if the Canadian had ploughed into their home-from-home . |
| 12 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 13 | Judge then my feelings when the first face I was to see at Jo'burg airport was the self-same Second Secretary , delighted that he had again been honoured with an important secret mission . |
| 14 | Apparently there had been yet another terrible scene when the old Doctor , his wits once more restored by salt and water , had discovered that he had again been disobeyed . |
| 15 | I gathered from Anthony ( whom I saw later on Thursday ) that he had neither been asked for his advice nor had volunteered it . |
| 16 | Watanabe had also made derogatory comments about China and Brazil which he had since been forced to retract . |
| 17 | He had even been overheard on the radio by British Coastguards as he arranged a rendezvous on one occasion , but in spite of a tip-off we had been unable to trap him . |
| 18 | It was rumoured that he had even been asked to Sandringham with his sketchbook , some time this coming autumn . |
| 19 | Before the French Revolution Burke had supported the popular cause against undue monarchical power ; in fact , he had even been rumoured to have been the author of Junius 's letters . |
| 20 | He had also been made steward of Tottington , Rochdale and Penwortham just two weeks before the grant to Gloucester . |
| 21 | He had also been made steward of Tottington , Rochdale and Penwortham just two weeks before the grant to Gloucester . |
| 22 | He had also been born in Tamworth ; and so it was natural that , in February 1988 to mark the bicentenary of this famous Conservative Prime Minister and Home Secretary , the current Home Secretary should visit that Staffordshire town . |
| 23 | Coming into the event at Walton Heath , Murray was languishing in 71st place on the Order of Merit , but worse than that , he had also been warned that an arthritic condition called spondylitis could force him out of the game in little more than a year . |
| 24 | He had also been registered as the owner of a number of import-export companies . |
| 25 | Managing director Bernard Segrave-Daly said he had also been hoping the Chancellor would have introduced a duty system which would have helped smaller firms . |
| 26 | He had also been struck by a streak of ruthlessness in the boy which , he thought , ought not to have surprised him since he knew that , as with all good detectives , it must be present . |
| 27 | There was an element of Buck in both roles , and Voight already had experience in the wearing of Western gear because he had also been featured in the TV cowboy series Cimarron Strip and Gunsmoke . |
| 28 | He had also been tested in December last year . |
| 29 | Clemenza made an obvious starting point for Oliver , since he had also been commissioned to compose new recitatives for the opera in place of those which Mozart 's incompetent pupil Süssmayr reputedly dashed off on the coach trip to the Prague première . |
| 30 | He had also been identified as one of those who had guarded the hostages after the TWA 747 hijack in June of that year , which made him an accomplice in the murder of US Navy diver , Robert Stetham . |