Example sentences of "he had be [verb] a " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 7 | 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 " . |
| 8 | He had been drinking a lot of beer , but he says he heard cries . |
| 9 | Would the ship 's company have been saved if he had been singing a hit from the music-halls ? |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | The Boro 's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford . |
| 13 | He had been elected a fellow of the Linnean Society in 1793 . |
| 14 | Returning to Pembroke , of which he had been elected a fellow in 1899 , he became librarian and lecturer in Slavonic studies in 1901 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had been using a great deal of unnecessary and inappropriate tension when reciting . |
| 17 | However , he had been using a slightly different definition of a black hole . |
| 18 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
| 19 | He had been trying a pipe recently , but was not making much progress . |
| 20 | Only then did he fully realize that he had been experiencing a mild dull pressure in the head , as well as the nausea , physical and mental fatigue . |
| 21 | He had been given a tough assignment and he was in there fighting like hell on behalf of the British vehicle division . |
| 22 | Whereas yesterday he had been given a glimpse of Vic 's charm , now he felt disturbed by this peculiar character . |
| 23 | Noel Koch was the deputy assistant for international security affairs at the Defense Department when North was at the NSC ; he had been given a code-name , and it was ‘ Aaron ’ . |
| 24 | He had been given a list of Extension Centres marked ‘ active ’ or ‘ dormant ’ to ensure there would be no misinterpretation over his activities within the constraints of the document . |
| 25 | Mr Major said he had been given a report on the particular material that was on show in a Commons committee room . |
| 26 | He had been given a name . |
| 27 | By supporting their own candidates , they were challenging Baldwin 's authority and leadership even though he had been given a vote of confidence by the Party in 1931 . |
| 28 | He had been given a lift to the Bayswater Road by a mutual friend , Derek O'Connor . |
| 29 | Fortunately , I noticed that he had been given a place at a different school from his older brother and that it was actually a matter of filling in the appeal form requesting a place at another school . |
| 30 | Nothing had happened , he had been given a warning , that was all . |