Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | A word from Maud and he had been given one of the four coveted places as a dresser , which meant he had more chance to learn the great man 's skills . |
| 2 | His action was popularly resented as a poor show of gratitude for the benefit he had been given two years before . |
| 3 | I later interviewed the bemused recordist , and established he had been given two portable stereo tape recorders , which he had laid on the ground pointing in opposite directions . |
| 4 | But whatever satisfaction Scott may have gained from the debate and the fact that he had been given six months to prepare a new design , it must have soon been dispelled by the public press and the action of some of his professional colleagues . |
| 5 | He had been given six Loaches , two heavy with eggs . |
| 6 | Kisekka , who was appointed Vice-President , was in his mid-70s and reported to be in poor health ; in February 1988 he had been given three deputies to ease his workload . |
| 7 | In 1319 , for instance , the wealthy Genoese merchant Antonio di Pessagno , formerly seneschal of Aquitaine , claimed that he had been granted 3000 l.st . |
| 8 | He had been stabbed fourteen times . |
| 9 | It was exactly the same act under which he had been prosecuted seven years before , with the Student Advisory Centre . |
| 10 | Since then he had been re-elected six times . |
| 11 | And then , too , he had been allowed three days of parole some weeks earlier . |
| 12 | He had been offered one interview , but had decided against it because , if he obtained the job , it would have meant travelling a long distance every day . |
| 13 | But he was also a war hero who had commanded small ships in battles in the Channel , for which he had been awarded two DSC 's , and the son of Scott of the Antarctic who then , even more than now , was a national hero of mythic proportions in the eyes of most of us . |
| 14 | Working in the very competitive insurance industry , principally at Lloyd 's , he had been approached four times by four different headhunting firms , only one of whose names he remembered ( one of the smaller UK-based consultancies ) . |
| 15 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 16 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 17 | Drill , he had been told thirty years ago , is a curious aspect of training . |
| 18 | He felt he had been upsetting one or two people and that the game would be easier to control without him around . |