Example sentences of "he had be [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His appointment as curator of Sir John Soane 's Museum at a salary of £300 p.a. was announced on 16 July 1904 ; he had been acting curator while his predecessor George H. Birch [ q.v. ] had been on sick leave . |
| 2 | Mr Reenan , a former TSB branch boss in Abingdon , said he had been sent hate mail and would probably not use his £900 scanner again . |
| 3 | When one recalls that for decades geography was not recognized as a scholarly discipline , one can not perhaps be surprised that some scientists have unsuspectingly spent their whole careers studying geography — rather like the well-known character of Molière who did not know that he had been speaking prose all his life ! |
| 4 | Mr Bates , of Brackley , Northants , hit and killed a scientist on a bicycle on his way back from a business meeting in London where he had been drinking wine and sherry , the Court heard . |
| 5 | Lewis began his Narnia stories for children in 1949 , but he had been publishing fiction for adults since Out of the Silent Planet ( 1938 ) , a mixture of space-fiction and theology that he was soon to extend into a trilogy , ending with That Hideous Strength ( 1945 ) . |
| 6 | He had retired to NZ after a long career in education and publishing with Schofield & Sims , Collins Educational and Holmes McDougall , where latterly he had been publishing director . |
| 7 | It can be contained by medication and he had been receiving treatment at a hospital in Salford as a voluntary patient just prior to his trip . |
| 8 | There were 23 other pairs — all younger and all seeming to possess the speed of Linford Christie around the court — and , when my partner greeted me with the news that he had been undergoing physiotherapy for a dodgy back all week , I felt that our interest would be peripheral , to say the least . |
| 9 | Sometimes he felt he had been made whole , delivered , in a kind of fantasy , by his very longing . |
| 10 | But Nuadu had returned ; he had been made whole by the Court Sorcerer , and he , also , had regained his Throne . |
| 11 | He had been made mayor by the Germans during the Occupation , and had in fact done his best for the villagers . |
| 12 | Previously he had been elected chairman of the Falkland Islands Committee because his determination to keep the Falklands British was such a boost to the morale of the islanders . |
| 13 | He had been elected floor leader in 1986 , a post which in the Netherlands political system was comparable to that of party leader . |
| 14 | He had been elected Treasurer of the Oxford University Dramatic Society and , as such , demonstrated the prime motive of his life — an unashamed love of money . |
| 15 | He took the decision soon after he had been elected Speaker in 1983 . |
| 16 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 17 | James told magistrates that he had been using speed for about five years and injected himself three or four times a month . |
| 18 | The eccentric Cantona jetted hastily back to France after being dropped from the side at QPR , although at the time the club claimed he had been given permission . |
| 19 | It was reported on June 17 that he had been given responsibility for local government , while other responsibilities were redistributed between deputy premiers . |
| 20 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 21 | Gloucester opened negotiations with the dowager almost immediately , apparently claiming that he had been given custody of her and her land by the king , and by January 1473 the countess and her feoffees had agreed to make an estate to Gloucester in all the dower lands . |
| 22 | On his last visit he had been given coffee . |
| 23 | Auriol , winner of the Monte Carlo rally , was disqualified in Sweden after officials said he had been given oil outside a technical help zone . |
| 24 | He had been given command of a cavalry brigade , a mere twelve hundred sabres , while men he thought less talented than himself commanded whole divisions . |
| 25 | He pointed to the sky and then to the clearing , to the path that led to the cabin where Sycorax lay , and Kit understood that he had been granted permission to remain three cycles of the moon . |
| 26 | The accused claimed that he had been granted permission by a supervisor to take scrap tyres from a certain firm . |
| 27 | North 's lawyers claimed that his 1989 trial had been marred by the absence of key witnesses , including former President Reagan , and by the prejudicial effect upon prosecutors , jurors and witnesses of the highly publicized testimony which North had given to the 1987 congressional inquiry , and for which he had been granted immunity from prosecution . |
| 28 | He had done homage for Normandy and Anjou at Montmirail and he had been crowned King of England in 1170 . |
| 29 | And then later he had been bound apprentice to Ninereeds the Masteraccount , who in his grey-mindedness was everything that dragons were not , and there was no time for dreaming . |
| 30 | He had been moving heaven and earth to gain what was now little more than a pittance , in the light of what he had unexpectedly inherited . |