Example sentences of "he had [been] [vb pp] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | It seemed he had been sent no less than ten lords a leaping . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | ‘ It would have been horrid if he had been born a few days after she died . ’ |
| 6 | 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 " . |
| 7 | He had been warned the night before not to attempt to go to the airport but had done so anyway . |
| 8 | He had been defeated the first time , but that foray into the arena had taught him a lot . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | The Boro 's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford . |
| 11 | He had been made an object of fun and a target for abuse . |
| 12 | Slaven claimed he had been made the scapegoat and vowed to blast Boro to promotion given the chance . |
| 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 | 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 . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He had been taught the hard lesson that you eat where there is food , because food is sustenance and without it there is failure and collapse . |
| 18 | He had been given a tough assignment and he was in there fighting like hell on behalf of the British vehicle division . |
| 19 | Whereas yesterday he had been given a glimpse of Vic 's charm , now he felt disturbed by this peculiar character . |
| 20 | 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 ’ . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Mr Major said he had been given a report on the particular material that was on show in a Commons committee room . |
| 23 | He had been given a name . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He had been given a lift to the Bayswater Road by a mutual friend , Derek O'Connor . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Nothing had happened , he had been given a warning , that was all . |
| 28 | A few days ago , some hooligan or other walked into our bedroom , mine and Jane 's — and lifted " Suddenly , as the thought struck him , he jerked back in his chair , as if he had been given a minor electric shock , and stared at Alice , his jaw literally dropping . |
| 29 | Sinclair did buy the Observer and the Pall Mall in the end , but not before he had been given a $45,000 guarantee from party funds . |
| 30 | He had been given a rifle and Ivan taught him how to shoot . |