Example sentences of "he had [adv] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had evidently been through all this before . |
| 2 | He had evidently been in fear of his life and purchased the weapon for that reason , since he had already been attacked on two previous occasions . |
| 3 | He had briefly been in the Army but had left when it became clear that he would not get commissioned . |
| 4 | Among them were those who were convinced that he had secretly been in league with the employers . |
| 5 | Later I realised he had also been in the other two . |
| 6 | ‘ It 's not every day that someone wanders on to my property and , when charged at by a Dobermann who 'd shot off as I closed the door after us , goes blithely forward and greets it with the words , ‘ Hello , darling ’ , ’ he replied , reminding her , had she forgotten , that , the dog never far from his control outside of the house , he had soon been on the spot to witness events . |
| 7 | Further research revealed that in 1414/15 an Andrew Forshey had been chosen as one of two men to represent the borough in parliament , and it seemed sensible to hazard that a man of this standing would have held property in the area , for he would have been unlikely to have been elected by his fellow bailiffs , with the assent of the whole community , if he had not been of substantial material worth . |
| 8 | One after the other was called to report why he had not been to the police court for a long period , and threatened that if he did not do more work in the future he would lose pay . |
| 9 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 10 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 11 | He ate and drank simply and , although he enjoyed the theatre , he had not been to a play for twenty years . |
| 12 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 13 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 14 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 15 | If he had not been with them , he would have gone through that town quite safely . |
| 16 | He had not been with them since before the war and , as the youngest son , he saw his older brother and sisters passing away from him : Ada had died in 1943 , and now Henry was seriously ill with leukaemia . |
| 17 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 18 | But then , of course , he had not been at home . |
| 19 | He had not been on duty on the afternoon of the shooting or responsible for any of the aftermath investigations . |
| 20 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 21 | He received a letter the next day apologizing and accepting that he had not been in possession of a stolen car . |
| 22 | Furthermore , as evidenced in correspondence , he had not been in contact with his accountant , who knew of the General Commissioners ' decision , between 17 June 1991 and the end of October 1991 . |
| 23 | He had not been in court that morning after all ? |
| 24 | In fact , he had not been in the room when they were taken . |
| 25 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |
| 26 | He had not been in the forest since Boz 's wedding . |
| 27 | ‘ You were scavenging ? ’ he enquired , as though he had not been in the least surprised to find her rummaging waist-deep through a multifarious pile of flotsam and jetsam . |
| 28 | He had not been in trouble before and acted totally out of character . |
| 29 | He had just been to the Palace to kiss hands as Prime Minister for the second time . |
| 30 | He perceived that he was ‘ up against ’ the position of having to carry on his life not as an emotion , but as a scientific game ; that he was committed by circumstances to novel writing as a regular trade , as much as he had formerly been to architecture ; and that hence he would , he deemed , have to look for material in manners — in ordinary social and fashionable life as the other novelists did . |