Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [vb past] [adv] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Josef Mauer had been with the Austrian police for eighteen years , the last eleven as a sergeant stationed in Linz , but despite numerous attempts by his superior to change his mind he had never been interested in promotion , preferring the everyday excitement that came with riding the streets in a police car to struggling with a mound of paperwork in some closeted office . |
| 2 | No wonder he had n't been keen to tell her about it . |
| 3 | Until this moment he had not been aware of his own anxiety throughout Elizabeth 's pregnancy . |
| 4 | He wrote to Viola again , saying that a spiteful florist he had once been kind to had put the card in the flowers . |
| 5 | In his researches at Wimbledon Public Library he had not been able to find any really cheering quotations on the subject of death . |
| 6 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 7 | As a doctor he had always been aware of the importance of leading a healthy lifestyle . |
| 8 | As Prime Minister he had mostly been popular and happy , although bearing heavily even the limited press of public work which his economy of effort prescribed . |
| 9 | Fergus had not been aware of the precise moment when the Lad of the Skins drew his soul from his body with the Knife of Light , but he had known a great coldness , and a sense of desolation , and an abandonment so complete that it had overwhelmed him , and for a time he had scarcely been aware of what was happening . |
| 10 | The effect of such correction can , in some instances , be dramatic , as in the case of a child who , after receiving his first pair of spectacles , spent several evenings looking at the stars as it was the first time he had ever been able to see them . |
| 11 | In the three days since his interview with the Bishop he had scarcely been able to speak for the bitterness of his blighted hopes . |