Example sentences of "he had be [verb] an " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had been made an object of fun and a target for abuse . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had been using an ingenious method . |
| 5 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 6 | Now he had been given an assignment that demanded intuitive analysis to a sensitive degree . |
| 7 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 8 | The only good news to offset my ‘ disgrace ’ was that Father had proved such a success at Marconi 's that he had been appointed an assistant manager in the research department dealing with radio materials . |
| 9 | A figure moved across from the dark corner in which he had been having an earnest conversation with a black boy , and sat down next to her . |
| 10 | While he had been talking an Arabic serving-woman had silently entered the room . |
| 11 | Now , as he waited for his flight , he felt exhausted , as if he had been playing an enormously difficult game of poker for high stakes . |