Example sentences of "[adj] [noun sg] he had [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At this stage he had been in contention behind McCallen and Dunlop and even after his restart he still clawed his way back into the leading group . |
| 2 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 3 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 4 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 5 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 6 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 7 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 8 | Father Donnelly was also there , looking plumper these days , but still the same cheerful personality he had been in Brooklyn . |
| 9 | He was sixty-four now , but as a young man he had been in the army and seen action on the North-West Frontier . |
| 10 | In earlier life he had been in Canada and it is certain that at least some youthful potential emigrants to Canada were inspired by his accounts of life there . |
| 11 | Mr Prescott told the court that on the fateful evening Boxing Day last year he had been in the pub with Mr Maltby and another friend . |
| 12 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 13 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 14 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 15 | The last time he had been in Athens , when the group that called themselves ‘ November 17th ’ had hit the Procter & Gamble offices with an anti-tank rocket , he had not been admitted to the presence of this big man . |
| 16 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |