Example sentences of "he had [be] [verb] " 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 | In fact , as he later admitted in court , he had been represented by a lawyer from Newcastle at the time of signing to Virgin : not a music-business lawyer , it was true , but a lawyer none the less . |
| 3 | ‘ I would mine uncle would let me have my life , though he takes my crown , ’ he had been heard to say on one occasion . |
| 4 | He had been roaming New Orleans , his adopted city , for two days . |
| 5 | The affair lasted about three weeks then he broke it off and confessed to Sarah that he had been seeing someone else . |
| 6 | The consequent reduction in his income had meant that he could not afford to run a car any longer , and therefore he had been seeing less and less of his girlfriend , who lived 15 miles away . |
| 7 | He had been seeing Molly on and off for about six months . |
| 8 | Now , in retrospect , she could see that marriage to him would have been a ghastly mistake , and that her reaction to discovering that he had been seeing other women while he had been engaged to her had had far more to do with wounded pride than with a wounded heart . |
| 9 | He had been seeing her for over a year now and yesterday she popped the big question . |
| 10 | Then on Easter Sunday Pringle confronted best pal Jason Ward , 20 , with the suggestion that he had been seeing Leanne . |
| 11 | He had been met by the Defence Ministry people , who had taken him directly from the aircraft steps , but no one had said a word on the way into the city . |
| 12 | Lee wondered why the barman tolerated him but when she looked towards the bar she saw that the barman seemed hypnotized by the antics of the pub 's female singer , not pleasantly , but as if he had been created permanently attached to a painful but essentially dependable puzzle . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | He had been sighted at Woodcote and again with the gypsies at the village of Checkendon . |
| 15 | According to Trubin , he had been implicated in the plot by SCSE members in custody . |
| 16 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 17 | Sabine Jourdain had been shot , Barbara Coleman had been abducted , someone had tried to strangle Rain , the reception clerk and Cobalt had been beaten up , and Rain and he had been chased through a maze by a man with a ferocious determination on his face . |
| 18 | Rousseau challenged the Christian doctrine of Original Sin ; he believed that man was by nature good , and that he had been corrupted by civilization ; savages were uncorrupted . |
| 19 | The complainant need not show he was aggrieved on the date mentioned in the summons , it is enough that he had been aggrieved earlier , otherwise as Darling , J. pointed out in Hilton v Hopwood it would be virtually impossible for an individual to bring an action under s.99 . |
| 20 | The Repertory of the Homoeopathic Materia Medica presented me with a view of patients and diseases which was quite unlike anything which I had encountered , and gave many lively examples of the ways in which Kent had solved the clinical problems with which he had been faced . |
| 21 | Afterwards , Angelo Dundee , who had trained Ali from the start and had to be talked into showing up for this one , watched him slumped in the dressing-room , then turned away and rubbed his eyes as certain people tried to convince Ali that he had been robbed and that a fourth title was still possible . |
| 22 | The story was , that unused to concealing money about his person , he had been robbed on the train and had had to return home . |
| 23 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 24 | The Welsh star was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 25 | As he plundered her mouth Jenna was faintly aware that there was very little anger left in him ; this was complete sensuality , no doubt because he had been robbed of an evening with Claudine in his arms . |
| 26 | In the first , he had been robbed of something on which he had set his heart ; in the second he was robbed of his life . |
| 27 | Faldo just stayed in touch thanks to putts of 15 and 30 feet at the 14th and 16th for a round of 69 , while Ballesteros felt he had been robbed when he came in with a 68 . |
| 28 | Before Lee 's win , Lingdale 's Stephen Swales had lost a controversial majority points decision to Peterborough 's Liam Maltby at junior A 45kg even Maltby told him he had been robbed . |
| 29 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 30 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend , Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |