Example sentences of "he had [been] [adj] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Cole 's extreme anti-semitism had developed as a result of his exposure to the Protocols when he had been involved with allied help to the White Russians in the Civil War in the 1920s . |
| 2 | Andrew remarked that he had been involved with such a ceremony previously , when the opening of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway had been re-enacted on the Brecon Mountain Railway for one of his programmes . |
| 3 | It was during this time that as a senior staff officer of V Corps he had been involved with some of the orders to repatriate the Russian and Yugoslav prisoners . |
| 4 | He had been involved in other things . |
| 5 | He refused to confirm whether he had been involved in any talks with directors of Falkirk FC . |
| 6 | At the same time she could n't help but wonder about the fact that in the space of twelve months he had been involved in three relationships , Anna Wallace , Amanda Knatchbull and herself , any one of which could have ended in marriage . |
| 7 | In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years . |
| 8 | A moment before he had been guilty of one damnable , wicked , fleeting moment of joy when he thought Garvey lay dead on the floor . |
| 9 | If he had been alert to everyday things he knew he would have heard it sooner . |
| 10 | He had been unhappy about efflorescent damp . |
| 11 | But now the other cases were finished , and he had been successful in both of them . |
| 12 | He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse . |
| 13 | He had been proud of that . |
| 14 | He had been thirty-two in 1970 ; there had been certain events that were crucial to his life . |
| 15 | He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare . |
| 16 | He had been asleep for less than half an hour . |
| 17 | Indeed during the Second World War a British officer of some distinction , Fitzroy Maclean , had actually arrested Zahedi on grounds he had been intriguing with German agents . |
| 18 | Luckily he had been one of those we had briefed and he remembered the name . |
| 19 | Frumentarii , both cavalry decurions , for instance , are known to have served at Tiffen and Feldkirchen in the mining district of Noricum , while an official bearing the title immunis consularis curas agens vico Saloduro is recorded from Solothurn near Augst ; as an immunis he had been relieved of all other military duties by the provincial governor in order to oversee the village community of the Vicus Salodurus . |
| 20 | Despite his youth he had travelled alone , sleeping in barns along the route , with which he had been familiar through previous trips in his father 's company . |
| 21 | When he returned to the Gold Coast he had been absent for 12 years : he had departed far too young to have made any mark . |
| 22 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 23 | He had been ill for many months and his five-year term would not have been renewed at the National People 's Congress which starts on Monday . |
| 24 | He had been ill for some time . |
| 25 | He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April . |
| 26 | And if in this new life he was to be alone … well , he had been alone for most of his life . |
| 27 | He had been bemused at first by the scraps of peripheral information the Brigadier periodically tossed them with the air of someone indulging an already overfed dog , but now he was beginning to understand . |
| 28 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 29 | I think , in fact , that he had been aware of this property of the area . |
| 30 | You could n't have expected it , he had been doubtful about this day from the beginning . |