Example sentences of "that he had be [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 2 | Shortly afterwards his father died : he felt that he had been punished for expecting too much . |
| 3 | He had joined up as Air Crew , and for several weeks had walked around proudly with the white flash in his cap , denoting that he had been selected for flying . |
| 4 | After his exit from Monday 's semi-finals , Black revealed that he had been struggling for five years with a ‘ bio-mechanical ’ problem which affects his body balance and leads to other injuries . |
| 5 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 6 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 7 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 8 | In the following year his son-in-law ( Sir ) John Wolley [ q.v. ] told him that he had been recommended for the vice-presidency of Wales . |
| 9 | Could his intended victim have somehow guessed , from an unguarded look perhaps , that he had been marked for death ? |
| 10 | As everyone turned to look at him , Jinny realized that he had been waiting for this moment all the time he was explaining his plan . |
| 11 | In February 1756 reference is made to four illustrations ‘ sent some time since by our friend , Mr. Collinson ’ and Miller said he would have sent others except for the fact that he had been waiting for better colourists . |
| 12 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 13 | It was true he had had no stomach for the pallid lamb chops that he had been offered for lunch . |
| 14 | The case of Kenneth Littlejohn had been prominent in the news during the year and they had the impression that he had been working for the Home Office . |
| 15 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 16 | It agreed with the police that he had been arrested for cycling without due care and attention and that this had been sufficiently communicated to him . |