Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [noun] [noun] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been Town Sergeant from 1846 , and a formidable character he must have been to any offender . |
| 2 | He had been sales director for the major British manufacturer and had left two or three years ago when they were absorbed into a large industrial conglomerate . |
| 3 | He had been Form Master of 3A , and they wept at the announcement in Assembly next morning . |
| 4 | He had been Club Captain from 1914–1916 and was President from 1920–23 . |
| 5 | has a wide range of commercial experience and joins us from ( cheese manufacturers ) where he had been finance director since 1988 . |
| 6 | A fifty-six-year-old Scot with gaunt features and fine wavy hair , he had been UNACO Director since its inception in 1980 . |