Example sentences of "[noun] he [verb] [been] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the question of whether as adviser he had been privy to confidential information , he said : ‘ Any ( management ) buyout is party to information other buyers wo n't have . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Even with Palottino he had been discreet , not mentioning what the kidnapper had said to him . |
| 4 | Husameddin offers nothing in the way of specific evidence to support his statement either about Molla Yegan 's resignation or about Molla Fenari 's appointment , however , and is indeed at pains to say that in spite of much research he has been unable to find any signatures of Molla Fenari 's dating from this second kadilik . |
| 5 | There was no logical reason why they should add to the vague tension he 'd been conscious of all day . |
| 6 | Perhaps because this was an interview he had been glad to postpone , even temporarily . |
| 7 | As a student in Trinity College he had been used to doing six hours a week . |
| 8 | In the year under review he has been involved in 20 seminars , 18 counselling workshops and has undertaken 92 company visits . |
| 9 | The Deputy Director of the SIS was a man you could pass in the street without noticing , an effect he 'd been careful to cultivate . |
| 10 | But the shed at the side of the road had been unlocked , and when he peered into it the outline of the covered carriage he had been able to make out in the darkness promised adequate protection and a degree of comfort . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | For some while he had suffered from phlebitis and several times in the previous months he had been unable to speak at meetings . |
| 13 | For almost two months he 'd been worried for his son . |
| 14 | Adeane was also unhappy about his association with Operation Raleigh , an ambitious round-the-world sailing venture , the second he had been involved with , run by the explorer John Blashford-Snell . |
| 15 | As a child he had been unable to cope with the passions around him ; he had hidden himself away in books , consoling himself with golden reveries . |
| 16 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 17 | It was not like Karr to use his privilege so crudely and for a moment he had been concerned by his friend 's behaviour . |
| 18 | When she had telephoned Robert about breakfast-time , asking to see him about an important matter , he had seemed so astonished that the only place he had been able to suggest was here . |
| 19 | Tajan , who at first denied anything was wring at all , said in November he had been obliged to raise FFr15 million to pay the sellers of the Daum and Galle . |
| 20 | In Emor he had been rich beyond the dreams of avarice . |
| 21 | If the plaintiff has been unable to work at all up to the date of the trial , his loss will be the entire net remuneration which he would have earned ; if for a period he has been able to earn something , but not as much as he would have earned had he not been injured , his loss for that period will be the net difference between what he has earned and what he would otherwise have earned . |
| 22 | The Moscow newspaper Komsomolskaya Pravda suggested that one of the reasons why Pogosyan was resigning was that for several days he had been unable to secure an audience with Gorbachev to discuss developments in Armenia . |
| 23 | Well there 's another lad he 's been ill in health he 's worked more now than he ever has cos he used to work a few days and lose a few days and he was n't . |
| 24 | And for weeks he had been agonising and clashing with colleagues over Europe . |
| 25 | Space and air and the chance to go at his own pace , and most of all he needed to get away from the Zoo to that place which in the weeks he had been ill he had begun to sense must exist , though he knew neither its name nor where it might be . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | In the dim light of the evening he had been magnificent . |
| 28 | She dragged up that other business he 'd been foolish enough to confide in her , that lost girl with the golden voice . |
| 29 | For years he had been close friends with Kevin McCarthy and his wife . |
| 30 | For the previous three years he had been busy transcribing the forgotten and unpublished portions of the Shah Jehan Nama , the court chronicle of Shah Jehan . |