Example sentences of "he had been [adv] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been equally conscientious as a councillor when I worked with him and he was a fine and scrupulous justice of the peace . |
| 2 | He had been closely involved with Harriet over the horses . |
| 3 | He had been closely involved in the revival of the Drury Lane theatre and had clashed with the playwright Sheridan , who was in the habit of referring to Whitbread as ‘ His Dictatorship ’ . |
| 4 | He had been keenly interested in the first : about the second he was much intrigued . |
| 5 | in his heart , even then , he had been pretty sure that it was |
| 6 | Furthermore , although he had been pretty well openly accused of dishonesty at the meeting , his moral standards were much the same as Richard 's , only he did not feel he was well enough off to apply them as often , and in such a wide range of conditions , as the Skipper . |
| 7 | He was grateful to Taheb for having sought work for him through Merymose , and wondered if he had been unduly mistrustful of her . |
| 8 | Yet not before he had been thoroughly frightened by the ghosts who warned him of terrible judgment . |
| 9 | Three days later Ainsworth went to the landlord , Liverpool Housing Trust and said he had been illegally sub-letting the flat . |
| 10 | He had been most concerned with the inequality of provision between rural and urban areas which made tests of attainment a massive handicap for rural or impoverished urban children . |
| 11 | He told Barking magistrates he had been unaware of the problem because he had been away ill . |
| 12 | The road to the Hunt Ball was a long one — Dada drove the car , bestowed on him by Aunt Tossie years ago , when he had been rather upset . |
| 13 | All the same he had been rather cagey about Ianthe Broome , not saying who it was that had brought the oxtail . |
| 14 | Cllr Murphy said he had been bitterly disappointed that the report had stepped back from investigating allegations on manipulation of personnel recruitment because it is under investigation by an independent management consultancy . |
| 15 | His mother 's death was the first he had been intimately concerned with — his father 's hardly counted , because Peter had been only thirteen at the time . |
| 16 | He had wanted her himself so badly , and when he 'd heard of her wedding he had been insanely jealous . |
| 17 | He had been well aware that she would dearly love to have been one of his girlfriends , more than willing to go to bed with him had he given her any encouragement , and was resentful of his relationship with Liza . |
| 18 | Before forming his own political group in 1941 , — the Johnson/Forest Tendency — he had been heavily involved with the Socialist Workers ' Party ( SWP ) where he made a significant contribution , particularly on black issues , to the party newspapers ‘ Socialist Appeal ’ and ‘ Labor Action ’ . |
| 19 | Either he had been pitifully unobservant or she had been expertly deceitful . |
| 20 | Afterwards he admitted that he had been favourably impressed with Old Savill 's , except that the women were too grandly dressed . |
| 21 | Until he saw this phenomenon in the mirror , he had been completely unaware of it . |
| 22 | By comparison with Alexander I and most eighteenth-century tsars he had been remarkably inactive beyond his frontiers . |
| 23 | Since Arabella had died , he had been remarkably docile with Georgina . |
| 24 | He had been remarkably forgiving . |
| 25 | By the time morning came he was convinced he had been wide awake the whole night , though by that time he had remembered with the utmost clarity that the whole performance had taken place not in a television studio at all but in an enormous public lavatory , with Sir William and Lady Paice among the large crowd around the coffee table , and that his final humiliation was to discover at the end of the programme that he had been sitting on one of the lavatory seats throughout , with his trousers down around his ankles . |
| 26 | It was imperative , as he knew , not to get embroiled in politics , and he had been utterly furious when it appeared that architect Rod Hackney had done it for him . |
| 27 | He had been openly critical of his own archbishop 's defence of discrimination against homosexuals in church employment . |
| 28 | He had been intensely frightened of those dolls as a young boy . |
| 29 | For instance , he had been particularly close to his mother . |
| 30 | He had been uncharacteristically relaxed and jovial during the meal , which had both surprised and pleased Cleo , who 'd anticipated having to apologise for him all the time . |