Example sentences of "his [noun pl] had been [adj] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The trade in all his restaurants had been slack over the past couple of weeks , and he was glad to see so many lunchtime diners . |
| 2 | The sand under his feet had been crusty at first , ribbed , but now it was turning smooth , soft , unmarked . |
| 3 | But all was not yet lost in Conrad 's sanguine view , for his armies had been victorious in the north . |
| 4 | Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev . |
| 5 | Even his colleagues had been alarmed by James Harding 's confused state of mind , and had persuaded him to seek medical help . |