Example sentences of "he had [be] [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 2 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 3 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 4 | He had been at such pains . |
| 5 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 6 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 7 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 8 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 9 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 10 | He had been on one knee , but had risen to " attention " and then fallen , expiring without a word or groan , or any valedictory comments whatsoever . |
| 11 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 12 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 13 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 14 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 15 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 16 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 17 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 18 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 19 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 20 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
| 21 | His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years . |
| 22 | Because the tentacled exter was a living legend — of crime — as he had been for longer than I 'd been alive . |
| 23 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 24 | Rain asked whether he had been to Sabine Jourdain 's home . |
| 25 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 26 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 27 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 28 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 29 | Holding Management Inc. in the USA where he had been since 1983 . |
| 30 | His main interest was foreign and defence policy ( for a time he was both Prime Minister and Minister of Defence , as he had been from 1940 to 1945 ) . |