Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] [Wh adv] he had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He described how he had been contracted by the CIA to fly to Aguacate , a Contra base in Honduras with 28,000 pounds of military equipment . |
| 2 | At his solicitor 's office in Camden , north London , he told how he had been arrested when about 15 police officers came to his rented flat at 6am one morning in January , nearly three months after the bombing . |
| 3 | Fury returned as he thought how he had been cheated of glory by a treacherous piece of turf , when it had not even been his turn to lead ! |
| 4 | He knew why he had been chosen . |
| 5 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |