Example sentences of "his [noun pl] had been [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trade in all his restaurants had been slack over the past couple of weeks , and he was glad to see so many lunchtime diners . |
| 2 | His guards had been unable to intercept a single raider , in spite of having been warned of the exercise . |
| 3 | Like Gesner he had been a big handsome man and his costumes had been lavish and spectacular . |
| 4 | His parents had been right , she thought with a small sigh . |
| 5 | The sand under his feet had been crusty at first , ribbed , but now it was turning smooth , soft , unmarked . |
| 6 | Yes if his hips had been okay |
| 7 | But all was not yet lost in Conrad 's sanguine view , for his armies had been victorious in the north . |
| 8 | When Roosevelt had been persuaded by the British , in July 1942 , to postpone a direct invasion of Western Europe and instead to prepare an invasion of North Africa , one of his conditions had been that Free France should be excluded . |
| 9 | Gallacher admitted at the enquiry that he and his team-mates had been thirsty prior to the game , and rinsed their mouths out with whisky and water . |
| 10 | While his predecessors had been ordinary royal humans . |
| 11 | Sheriff James Smith told Daniels that his actions had been foolish and the offence was serious . |
| 12 | Because of this , the books of the New Testament appeared in Greek , although the language spoken by Jesus and his disciples had been Aramaic . |
| 13 | In fact Kinsai was noted for the peace and order which existed on its streets — there was order everywhere in the land , and very little real law breaking — and it was amazing that his attackers had been able to persist for so long without interference . |
| 14 | His ancestors had been Persian tutors at the Red Fort ; today , Dr Jaffery pursued exactly the same career in Zakir Hussain College on the margins of Old Delhi . |
| 15 | One of his men had been foolish enough to point out that the Company Captain was unlikely to want to use the cooker and that there had n't been anybody in that cell in all the eight years he 'd been there . |
| 16 | Though his nightmares had been disturbing , Mungo found himself thinking clearly . |
| 17 | Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev . |
| 18 | Even his colleagues had been alarmed by James Harding 's confused state of mind , and had persuaded him to seek medical help . |
| 19 | His intentions had been honourable , even if his behaviour had left something to be desired . |