Example sentences of "[noun prp] he [vb past] [be] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On Saturday he had been given some time off to visit his critically ill sister , 17-year-old Lillian , as she lay in hospital . |
| 2 | This was indeed his year for honours since in January he had been awarded the Order of Merit by George VI ; some have said that this gratified him more than the Nobel , and certainly he seemed to enjoy wearing the medal and ribbon on ceremonial occasions . |
| 3 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 4 | Told Tyler Beck he 'd been hit by a truck . |
| 5 | While he was in Paris he had been encouraged by Émile Zola to write novels , and in 1891 he published Guilty Bonds , a melodramatic story of conspiracy in Russia ; this was banned in that country , but it was the first of over 130 novels and biographies concerned with murder , espionage , and the occult . |
| 6 | In a taped voluntary statement said to have been given by MacIver , a lorry driver , he told Inspector Angus Chisholm he had been approached two weeks earlier in a pub by a Glasgow taxi driver he knew called Joe Hughes . |
| 7 | Meanwhile , in August he had been ordered to pay nearly F19,000,000 in tax arrears and associated fines . |
| 8 | The Venetian ambassador complained that though the republic had always been treated as the equal of the kingdoms of Europe he had been offered a place which did not fully reflect this . |
| 9 | With an interpreter we met for a drink and he told me that because his home was in East Germany he had been forbidden to travel abroad until quite recently when he became an old-age Pensioner ; this voyage was his first taste of freedom . |
| 10 | In March he had been sought by police for crashing his '66 Corvette Sting-Ray into a car he was trying to pass and then driving away . |
| 11 | At Eton he had been known as ‘ Hitler Hurd ’ , but events had mellowed him . |
| 12 | He made great play of all the tasks in the Casa Guidi he had been left to do — furniture to repair , decorations to see to — but to Wilson 's experienced eye they would not have occupied an energetic person more than a month at the most . |
| 13 | On a poor line from Baghdad he had been told , in a voice distraught with tears , that his cousin was under arrest , charged with treason , held in the Abu Ghraib gaol . |
| 14 | After St Joan he had been awarded the Nobel Prize for Literature ; after his film of Pygmalion he had been given an Oscar . |
| 15 | The court heard Mr Ozberk had told immigration officials that in April he had been arrested by Turkish police seeking information about his brother , a member of an outlawed Kurdish independence organisation . |
| 16 | Back in Vienna he had been bewitched by the viciously witty judgments of the satirist , Karl Kraus . |
| 17 | He did n't tell Stella he had been asked to the football match . |