Example sentences of "[verb] [noun] he [verb] [been] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On the day after the Cease Fire he had been granted an audience with the Chairman of the Revolutionary Council and he had argued his case for the revitalisation of his dream . |
| 2 | Just before this meeting MacArthur told Gascoigne he had been in contact with Senator Robert A. Taft and , in a five-page letter , had urged on Taft the importance of concluding a peace treaty speedily . |
| 3 | Mr Eric Forth , consumer affairs minister , told MPs he had been ‘ very affected ’ by the death but ‘ on balance ’ had decided a ban was not justified on a product which carried a warning on the packaging . |
| 4 | The Prime Minister told MPs he had been misled by Mr Clark over the sanctions-busting sales of arms-building equipment to dictator Saddam Hussein . |
| 5 | The last time she had seen Niall he had been checking on his patients . |
| 6 | The 30-year-old victim , who has not been named , told police he had been abducted , beaten and gang raped by the soldiers from the Fifth Airborne Division . |
| 7 | Marron told police he 'd been copying what he 'd seen on a pornographic video : Judge Paul Clark said it showed how harmful such videos were . |
| 8 | He also told police he 'd been copying a homosexual video tape . |
| 9 | Then Candy brought forward a witness who assured police he had been drinking with the prisoner in the Star , another central Reading public house , at the time of the murder . |
| 10 | His mother , he would say , had left home after such a humiliation , taking the three children on what had proved a pilgrimage of terror ; he thanked God he had been nine years old and able to run off and fend for himself . |
| 11 | When Columbus reached America he had been trying to find India ; when Glass discovered the music of India he found his new world . |
| 12 | He did n't tell Stella he had been asked to the football match . |
| 13 | According to the Sun the man walked free after telling guards he had been attacked in the incident on Tuesday . |
| 14 | Before leaving England he had been hankering after his American roots , not only in those sections of Ash-Wednesday which recall the New England coast , but also in his prose , invoking , for instance , his old master Josiah Royce , who was now mostly forgotten , ‘ but a great philosopher in his day ’ . |
| 15 | However , since he left school he has been in no further trouble with the police and , although unemployed , remains happily at home with his family . |
| 16 | After leaving school he had been unable to settle , had wandered from place to place and had eventually landed up in Borstal , where his crimes had given him a reputation for toughness and ruthlessness which he had felt compelled to live up to ( although at the same time hating it and himself ) . |
| 17 | Robert recognized faces he had been trying to avoid for weeks . |