Example sentences of "he had been [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been scouring a pan , but now put it on another jerry-can to drain , alongside two clean plates . |
| 2 | This must have been in the two years between the autumn or summer of 1187 , when he left Paris , and September 1189 , by which time he had been created a cardinal deacon by his relative , Pope Clement III . |
| 3 | ‘ He had been acting a bit strangely recently . ’ |
| 4 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 5 | It seemed he had been sent no less than ten lords a leaping . |
| 6 | Education standards had deteriorated to such an extent by 1997 that Billy Johnson could n't work out whether he had been born a day too early or too late to vote , or whether his birth had been induced or retarded . |
| 7 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 8 | That is , if then Q and If Q then R , where these are such conditionals , entail If P then R. It has sometimes been said that certain other " if " statements are not transitive — for example , " If J. Edgar Hoover had been born a Russian , he would have been a Communist " , " If he had been a Communist , he would have been a traitor " , and " If he had been born a Russian , he would have been a traitor " . |
| 9 | At the direction of his lance master , he had been patrolling the ancient forest of Haling Heart , south of Scaraby , for three seasons and had found no quests with which to occupy himself , never mind accrue funds for the order . |
| 10 | He had been warned the night before not to attempt to go to the airport but had done so anyway . |
| 11 | He had been calculating the girl as a mathematical entry in the equation . |
| 12 | He found he had been speaking the memory out into the night and among the bleak cages around . |
| 13 | He had been drinking a lot of beer , but he says he heard cries . |
| 14 | He had been receiving an extraordinary number of new birds from Elizabeth 's brothers , Stephen and Charles Coxen , who had emigrated to Australia some years before . |
| 15 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 16 | He had been expecting a great difference , but not the extent of the hostility that had greeted him and the reality of a giant Worm wielding enormous electrical energy . |
| 17 | Lorton had known who they were as soon as he 'd seen them ; he had been expecting the police , though not quite as soon as this , and in any case salesmen rarely travelled in pairs . |
| 18 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 19 | Mr Clare told his son he had been saving the money he would have spent on his university education for him . |
| 20 | All afternoon he had been monitoring the progress of the Peace Demo from Hyde Park to Trafalgar Square and plotting the advance of the National Front from the opposite direction . |
| 21 | In his book Under Fire : An American Story , published on Oct. 22 , North avowed that former President Ronald Reagan not only " knew everything " about the Iran-contra project but also " enthusiastically " backed it , and that he had been made a scapegoat by senior Reagan administration officials seeking to protect the President and themselves . |
| 22 | The Boro 's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford . |
| 23 | He had been made an object of fun and a target for abuse . |
| 24 | Slaven claimed he had been made the scapegoat and vowed to blast Boro to promotion given the chance . |
| 25 | He had been elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1793 . |
| 26 | Returning to Pembroke , of which he had been elected a fellow in 1899 , he became librarian and lecturer in Slavonic studies in 1901 . |
| 27 | He had been elected an Honorary Fellow in 1850 , and it is clear that Hope 's wealth and position were still of sufficient value to the profession that he became the only amateur , apart from Grey , to be the Institute 's President . |
| 28 | Also on March 25 parties of the so-called " pro-democracy " alliance ( New Aspirations Party , Palang Dharma , Ekkaparb and the Democrats ) held a joint press conference and called into question the credibility of Narong as Prime Minister , in the light of a recent US State Department allegation that he had been denied a visa in mid-1991 because of his suspected ties with drug trafficking . |
| 29 | Nabiyev , however , claimed that he had been touring the region to meet the population after recent mudslide disasters . |
| 30 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |