Example sentences of "he had [been] [adj] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Earlier , Det Sgt John Clark had said he had been involved in meetings with other police forces all over the country after a number of raids on TSB branches in which cash dispensers were forced open using oxy-acetylene equipment . |
| 2 | He felt light-headed , as if he had been awake for days on end . |
| 3 | He had been old for years and grown so fat in the stomach that he puffed when he stooped . |
| 4 | Mr Bérégovoy's's friends claim he had been horrified by accusations of impropriety in accepting an interest-free loan of FFr1m ( $190,000 ) from a shady business friend , who was later charged with insider trading . |
| 5 | The preacher was describing with enthusiasm how he had been wicked for years and how a certain parson had pointed it out to him : this had gradually turned him from wickedness . |
| 6 | He had been interested in tramps since childhood — ' I love a public road' ; he had read Crabbe 's description of a workhouse at school and had been shocked by the confinement of the mentally ill ‘ inasmuch as idiots and lunatics among the humbler classes of society were not to be found in Workhouses — in the parts of the North where I was brought up , — but were mostly at large ’ . |