Example sentences of "[pron] he had [be] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I mentioned a boy who had only been at school for two terms , a boy who had had a limp , someone he had been friendly with for a time . |
| 2 | Despite himself he had been touched by her fierce defence of him , and although he frequently entertained Mrs Darrell he only did so because she was the widow of his dead friend . |
| 3 | As he describes himself he had been , during the nineties at Cambridge and afterwards , a rather worldly , flippant creature , erm but after this experience something changed within him , and he says , and I suppose , I think we must believe that it is true , that it was on account of this sort of moral mystical experience that his whole attitude to the world was changed , and he was provided with the peculiar moral strength to fight the battles , as he later did fight , against war and other such things . |
| 4 | Newman died in 1890 after a career in which he had been successively the most influential thinker in the Church of England , and then in English Roman Catholicism . |
| 5 | The Governor returned to Port Stanley from which he had been expelled , and huge defence installations were then erected to prevent any further Argentine attacks , including a massive new airport at Port Stanley . |
| 6 | Fortes , however , when later reviewing the work of Morgan , handsomely acknowledges the extent to which he had been foreshadowed by Morgan [ Fortes , 1969 ] , first in terms of his analysis of the way these acephalus systems work , and secondly in his understanding of the way that the continuing existence of politically active descent groups poses a threat to the organization and stability of the State . |
| 7 | This was advice which he had been unable to fallow himself . |
| 8 | This insight had enabled Lewis to recover all the things in art and in life which he had been enjoying since imaginative awareness dawned . |
| 9 | First , there was a meeting in Whitehall of the Economic Planning Council , followed by the conference at Trinity College Dublin , at which he had been invited to speak on the subject of European investment . |
| 10 | I had a letter about him from the Amalgamated Society of Joiners and Carpenters , of which he had been a prominent member . |
| 11 | It was common form for converts who had led relatively blameless lives to condemn , as Newton did , ‘ the impiety and profaneness ’ of their unregenerate days ; but in his case there were the hard facts of his voyages in slave ships to the West Coast of Africa , on one of which he had been abandoned to his fate and only rescued through a combination of circumstances that indeed seemed to be almost miraculous . |
| 12 | When conflict between Ken McFaul , a founder member of the DUP and an ex-mayor of Carrickfergus , and other DUP members reached the point of McFaul being expelled from the Party ( and simultaneously resigning ) , he also left the Free Presbyterian Church of which he had been an elder . |
| 13 | We had a very happy collaboration in Berlin over Mozart 's Die Zauberflöte , which he had been wanting to do for a number of years . |
| 14 | I remember him telling me how over the years it was a role which he had been able to approach from many different standpoints . |
| 15 | But Arran did get his duchy of Châtelherault , worth 12,000 livres ( £1000 sterling ) per annum , in February 1549 ; and in June or July of that year , his half-brother John Abbot of Paisley was finally recognized as Beaton 's successor in the archbishopric of St Andrews , to which he had been provided in November 1547 . |
| 16 | After his death in the south of France , which he had been visiting almost annually since the 1870s , his body was brought back and some 60,000 people filed past the coffin . |
| 17 | Many forest landowners were in fact heavily amerced by Passelewe : in 1264 the Abbot of Bruern paid 500 marks for acquittance of all the trespasses of which he had been convicted at the Oxford Forest Eyre in 1245 . |
| 18 | Having accomplished this , she had managed to consign the memory of her unnamed son to a Wednesday ( the day on which he had been born and on which he had been slaughtered ) in August , annually , on Møn . |
| 19 | Having accomplished this , she had managed to consign the memory of her unnamed son to a Wednesday ( the day on which he had been born and on which he had been slaughtered ) in August , annually , on Møn . |
| 20 | For the last quarter of an hour or so his face had been furrowed with the effort of understanding the information with which he had been presented . |
| 21 | SIR JOSEPH BURKE , who has died aged 78 , was Professor of Fine Arts at Melbourne University for more than three decades , before which he had been a member of Attlee 's secretariat at 10 Downing Street . |
| 22 | First , there was an unresolved question over the constitutional position of Jacques as District Secretary as a member of the RAC from which he had been excluded . |
| 23 | He was aware of how professional he must appear to her in his preparations for what she saw as killing and which he had been trained to see as protection of the innocent . |
| 24 | In 1965 he resigned from Sinn Féin , of which he had been a vice-president , because of its refusal to recognise the legitimacy of both governments in Ireland . |
| 25 | When he 'd first arrived he had lived in a succession of bedsitting rooms on the west side , for which he had been charged extortionate rents by landlords who he never met ; the third night after coming to The Bar for the first time he had slept with someone who knew of someone who had a spare room at a much more reasonable price , and Boy had moved in . |
| 26 | It was , as he readily acknowledged , in many ways an unfortunate statement into which he had been pushed by his officials before he had fully mastered the intricacies of the problem . |
| 27 | He came to regret the destruction for which he had been responsible in the name of church restoration under the unenlightened rules prevailing at the time , and in 1881 he joined the recently formed Society for the Protection of Ancient Buildings , for which he worked quietly but assiduously into old age . |
| 28 | For such critics Hardy traced an essential parallel with the irregularity of Gothic architecture in which he had been trained , and noted ‘ There is latent music in the sincere utterance of deep emotion , however expressed , which fills the place of the actual word-music in rhythmic phraseology on thinner emotive subjects , or on subjects with next to none at all . ’ |
| 29 | After a fight between lads from Menheniot and Liskeard , at which he had been champion of the victorious Liskeard team , the local constable had intervened . |
| 30 | He was soon to clear his name , however , with momentous consequences for the soccer world from which he had been expelled . |