Example sentences of "he had [been] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Patrick had been company , tending him had been a solace , hoping for him had been a hope . |
| 2 | Patrick had been company , tending him had been a solace , hoping for him had been a hope . |
| 3 | It was obvious that the sight of him had been a shock to Tamar 's brother , but Davis was convinced that he had never encountered George before . |
| 4 | He wanted to blurt out that she looked beautiful in blue , that he 'd like to kill the man who 'd been in her flat the previous evening , that he hoped her date with him had been a miserable failure , that he had hardly slept a wink all night , beside himself with jealousy . |
| 5 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 6 | Spending even this short amount of time with him had been a big mistake . |
| 7 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
| 8 | The letter-writer is an orthopaedic surgeon who was taken off a plane as he was about to make a short visit to the UK where he had been a post-graduate student . |
| 9 | Young Donald — his eyes were clear black-brown , like a lochan stained with peat , his hair was curly like a bull 's poll , and he had been a lovely lad until his father went away , clever with his hands , whittling pieces of wood and glueing them to make little windmills and watermills . |
| 10 | He lived in 1935 ( when I last saw him ) in the utmost simplicity , although if he had been a little more conciliatory he could always have earned enough for his comfort — and his wife 's ; but he never valued anything that money could buy as he valued the integrity of his sharp-shooting mind . |
| 11 | It further alleged that he had been a ‘ fifth columnist ’ working for the Army in west Belfast in the 1970s , and had been given immunity by the RUC to carry a gun and carry out robberies . |
| 12 | By pre-arrangement the debate was limited to foreign and defence matters , which Mr Ford considered his strong suit because he had been a congressman and a vice-president while his opponent , Jimmy Carter , had been a mere governor of Georgia and a peanut farmer . |
| 13 | He had been a trade-union official , in a white-collar civil-service union , in his young days , and he regarded as sacrosanct maintaining the liaison between unions and party at all costs . |
| 14 | She won one victory in January 1981 when a palpable ‘ wet ’ , Norman St John-Stevas , was removed as Leader of the House ( where he had been a conspicuous success ) , while younger men like Leon Brittan and Kenneth Baker were promoted , the latter having been one of Heath 's campaign managers in 1975 . |
| 15 | Pearce 's switch to British Aerospace was helped by the fact that he had been a non-executive director of the aerospace company for three years prior to the move . |
| 16 | He had been a widower for many years , she knew . |
| 17 | She felt disturbed ; thinking of the gleaming Karl with his polished manners and mannered poise , and of how once he had been a boy . |
| 18 | He had been a friend of Lawrence of Arabia ; he knew Ottoline Morrell , at whose house Garsington Manor he had met Virginia Woolf , Bertrand Russell and D. H. Lawrence , among others . |
| 19 | Though indeed he had been a civil servant , Chambers was one of the foremost literary scholars in England . |
| 20 | He had been a cheerful fellow in those days and life was as inconsequential as a laugh on the wind or the carelessly squandered words of a song . |
| 21 | ‘ I just do n't want an apartheid government in Namibia , ’ said Naftali Herunga , who confided that he had been a soldier , serving in 102 Battalion — an ethnic Herero unit — under the South Africans . |
| 22 | But a shop assistant in the elite government village where Mr Krenz also lived , told local television he had been a regular customer in the supermarket supplying top officials with luxury goods . |
| 23 | But a shop assistant in the elite government village where Mr Krenz also lived , told local television he had been a regular customer in the supermarket supplying top officials with luxury goods . |
| 24 | But a shop assistant in the elite government village where Mr Krenz also lived , told local television he had been a regular customer in the supermarket supplying top officials with luxury goods . |
| 25 | By then , he had been a Recorder for ten years and had become a QC in 1974 , continuing in active practice until January 1985 , since when Sir Anthony — he was knighted last year — has acted as both Ombudsman and Health Service Commissioner . |
| 26 | He had been a student of D.J . |
| 27 | He had been a very successful amateur boxer , and sometimes would try to relieve our tension by sparring with me , teaching me basic moves of a sport I knew nothing about and instinctively detested . |
| 28 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 29 | Dickey had rebelled against his black clothes , until he was told that it would be naughty to mamma not to put them on , when he at once submitted ; and now , though he had heard Nanny say that mamma was in heaven , he had a vague notion that she would come home again tomorrow , and say that he had been a good boy and let him empty her workbox . ’ |
| 30 | Looking back , he thought he had been a little bit crazy , last night . |