Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At least he 'd been king — he had n't blown it the week before the Coronation , like we had . |
| 2 | He wanted to live , he 'd put in long years , he 'd been champion three times , it no longer excited him to race , this was it , goodbye and thanks . |
| 3 | Gran had always been tetchy and impatient with Ben Hesketh , she remembered ; and he 'd always called her Ma , as if he 'd been Jake 's brother . |
| 4 | She was beginning to see why he 'd been Jake 's friend . |
| 5 | ‘ Dare Say certainly deserved this change of luck as he 'd been second in three of his four races so far this term . ’ |
| 6 | McLaren , the 22-year-old Hearts defender , told me recently that when he made his World Cup debut against Italy ( the game where he was asked to mark Roberto Baggio ) , the fact that he 'd been part of the squad at the European Championship finals , as well as playing a couple of games on the tour of North America last year , were of immeasurable assistance in making the step up . |
| 7 | And another boys name was Thomas and he could n't write that cos all last year he 'd been Tom an he 'd forgotten how to write his surname they 're not dim children both of them |
| 8 | I recognised Lingary 's name from the times Andy had talked about the Falklands ; he 'd been Andy 's CO , the one Andy blamed for the deaths of some of his men . |
| 9 | Previously he 'd been president of Memorex' international group . |
| 10 | When he 'd appeared with her breakfast Penry Vaughan had been reasonably friendly — and in the middle of the night he 'd been kindness itself after her nightmare . |
| 11 | A multi-talented chap , he had been barrister , wartime squadron leader , Admiralty chief training officer and director of extra-mural studies at Durham University ( among much else ) before succeeding Hugh Dalton at Bishop Auckland in 1959 . |
| 12 | He had been Head of Modern Languages since 1920 , and was due to retire in five months ' time . |
| 13 | He had been Head of Geography from 1919 until his retirement in 1953 , and later became a Governor , representing the staff of the School . |
| 14 | He had been Sam 's best customer during his vacation , had spent a few pounds on skates and cycles , and had in fact hired these for days at a time . |
| 15 | He had been Dean of Chichester since 1567 , during which time he had succeeded in alienating almost the entire chapter by his forthright attacks on venality , pluralism and spiritual laxity . |
| 16 | He had been chairman-general of the 300,000-strong Zambian Congress of Trade Unions since 1974 . |
| 17 | He did much hospital work : for several years up to his retirement he had been Chairman of the South West Regional Hospital Management Board and was an active hospital visitor . |
| 18 | Mr Robin Cook MP , objected to Lord Diplock 's suitability on the ground that he had been chairman of the Security Commission since 1971 , and had not formerly indicated any understanding of the concern for civil liberties and privacy which had given rise to public and press anxiety about the procedures of the security services . |
| 19 | He had been Chairman for less then two years in succession to Dr. Greenwood , when he collapsed and died during a Welsh Regional Rally . |
| 20 | He had been king for two and a half years , and he was aged by ten . |
| 21 | Though Louis had had plenty of time to gain experience of ruling and to form a court of his own in the subkingdom of Aquitaine ( he had been king there since the age of three ) , he had had to wait a long time for his father 's inheritance . |
| 22 | Amaret Sila-on was a prominent industrialist , while Virabongsa Ramangura was a non-party economics expert , with a reputation for fiscal conservatism ; he had been economics adviser both to Chatichai and to his predecessor Gen. Prem Tinsulanonda . |
| 23 | As a founder member of the Surrey Cricket Council , he had been part of the framework whose aim is to ensure that cricket in Surrey , at levels up to the first-class game , will prosper . |
| 24 | Grant Fox , for instance , was sorely troubled by the allegations that he had been part of an Auckland spearhead which had had Shelford removed , and that his personal failings had been responsible for the indifferent play in Argentina and the loss of the Sydney Test to Australia . |
| 25 | Not that he did n't know its history — he had been part of it , if only as a silent witness of his brothers ' refusal to join the Fenian organisation which had started trying to recruit the young men of their day . |
| 26 | He 's a Russian émigré — came out just after the Revolution , although he had been part of it himself , and I do n't think he 's ever really settled down to ordinary life . |
| 27 | In the final conversation he had with them , McQueen told Boswell and Johnson of his adventures in the 1745 Rebellion , when he had been part of Bonnie Prince Charlie 's invasion force of England and got as far as Derbyshire , and fought at Culloden . |
| 28 | He had been against the choice of London as the location for European Headquarters when he had been Treasurer . |
| 29 | He had been Gerry Troy 's first recruit . |
| 30 | Since July 1400 he had been archdeacon of Dorset , absentee but perhaps not without interest . |