Example sentences of "[coord] his [noun pl] [vb past] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Because of this , the books of the New Testament appeared in Greek , although the language spoken by Jesus and his disciples had been Aramaic . |
| 2 | Following the disappointing returns in the World Cup , Richardson and his players had been under intense pressure . |
| 3 | Like Gesner he had been a big handsome man and his costumes had been lavish and spectacular . |
| 4 | According to press reports at the time , Lori McElroy and her boyfriend claimed Nicholas and his friends had been a problem throughout the holiday . |
| 5 | Daniel Moore and his friends had been the source of most of these . |
| 6 | The Asian youth told officers he had not been involved in the alleged attack , but that he himself and his friends had been set upon by a gang . |
| 7 | Gallacher admitted at the enquiry that he and his team-mates had been thirsty prior to the game , and rinsed their mouths out with whisky and water . |
| 8 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 9 | His eyes were red-rimmed and sagging , his nose a mass of pustules , and his teeth had been blacked out with enamel . |
| 10 | A jury swore in 1266 that John son of Nigel and his ancestors had been foresters of fee of Bernwood Forest ‘ from the Conquest of England ’ : another jury declared that the ancestors of William son of Adam had been granted the manor of Hutton-in-the Forest by Henry I , to hold by the serjeanty of keeping the bailiwick of Plumpton in Inglewood Forest . |
| 11 | He had visited the billiard room that morning and his nerves had been set on edge by the distressing scenes he had witnessed . |
| 12 | Hazel and his companions had been on the jump for nearly two days . |
| 13 | Zaghlul and his colleagues had been deported to Malta , but Britain was forced to allow them to go to Paris , though not as negotiators . |
| 14 | But , as I have said , the impression I was given in 1944 by three officers of the S.A.S. was that Leslie and his men had been dropped , and that only the plane itself had not returned . |
| 15 | Ziegler and his men had been driven westwards by a whole regiment of Red Lancers . |
| 16 | He and his men had been resting in the farm when they saw Sharpe 's ignominious flight . |
| 17 | On the death of his father in 1867 he and his sisters had been virtually adopted by their uncle , Sir David Salomons [ q.v. ] , |
| 18 | The fugitive and his boatmen had been washed ashore at Rossinish on Benbecula , in April , after a night of violent storms in the Minch : |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | The party leader , Kurt Schumacher , was a strong-minded social reformer and anti-communist , but his energies had been sapped by years in concentration camps under the Nazis , he refused to co-operate with ‘ bourgeois ’ political parties or the Catholic Church , and he had an abrasive , intolerant personal manner . |
| 21 | He felt guilty now for not having paid more attention , but his thoughts had been on the groom . |
| 22 | It is made clear that the boy was exposed to serious danger by his father 's irresponsibility and by his sisters ' departure : but his sisters had been exposed to this father too , and had had to defend themselves . |
| 23 | His feelings were heightened , but his drives had been running down . |