Example sentences of "he [vb past] been born [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been so sure he 'd been born to money . |
| 2 | When he was living in his body , he had it made over so many times that there was hardly any of what he had been born with left . |
| 3 | He had been born to money , power , and good looks ; with a combination like that at his command , why would he hesitate about anything ? |
| 4 | He had been born on Easter Day , surely the most hopeful date in all the year . |
| 5 | He had been born on March 30th 1853 . |
| 6 | Although he had been born in Wine Street , Bristol , his cloth-making ancestors had come from Wellington , and his grandfather had farmed in the remote Somerset hamlet of Rich 's Holford below the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills ; his eccentric uncle , John , was comfortably established in a ‘ most delightful villa ’ a mile from Taunton , and Bath had intermittently been Southey 's own home since childhood . |
| 7 | He had been born in Coatbridge , Glasgow in 1962 and been inside periodically from the age of seventeen . |
| 8 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 9 | He had been born in May 1940 and he died in November of the same year . |
| 10 | He had been born in America of American parents . |
| 11 | If he had been born in England he would have been put in care by now . |
| 12 | He had been born in England , had never seen India , spoke English as his cradle tongue and had forgotten all the Hindi he had ever learned but he had all the immigrant 's protective reactions and all his self-consciousness . |
| 13 | He had been born in Tucupita and had grown up there in the region of Venezuela where the great Paraqua river met the Orinoco and flowed into the Delta of the Orinoco where the sea moved on to Trinidad . |
| 14 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 15 | He had been born in Jamaica but came to England in the 1940s to work in the steel industry . |