Example sentences of "man had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | An unnamed man had been killed and his body dumped in a pond in a park . |
| 2 | The man had been trained in the 1950s when the ‘ tactile ’ approach to teaching was favoured . |
| 3 | The Fates that are so careful to shut the doors of each successive life behind us had , in this case , been neglectful , and Charlie was looking , though that he did not know , where never man had been permitted to look with full knowledge since Time began . |
| 4 | The man had been here and had gone . |
| 5 | It was hard luck on Steinmark , that went without saying , but if the man had been lurking in disreputable quarters and lurching home drunk , it was his own fault . |
| 6 | I recall that two years ago at the NFT he announced that his great ambition as a young man had been to become a movie director : now ( aided by director of photography William Lubtchansky and production designer Chloe Obolensky ) he has made a landmark television film . |
| 7 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 8 | He felt sure the man had been paid some sort of allowance for putting him up , but it did n't look as if any of it was going to be spent on food . |
| 9 | Whoever the man had been , with his blue eyes and thinning hair , Dorothea was grateful to him for his presence . |
| 10 | Dorothea had told Florence Ames the story of Gaily in the church twice before , and neither of them was yet tired of it , Dorothea because it pleased her friend so to hear it , and Florence because it pleased her that the man had been somehow vindicated , turned out to be as good as she had thought , and a friend . |
| 11 | For the past half-hour the little man had been giggling to himself as he stropped a Buck knife razor-sharp on the inside of his belt . |
| 12 | Meanwhile , Shackel 's unfortunate man had been done to death by his two attackers , and Peck now had a manslaughter case on his hands , a crime he might well have prevented . |
| 13 | The old man had been a seaman , and they had come from Chatham seeking a relative who had once lived next door , but who they found had moved . |
| 14 | Reports in the previous year that a local man had been killed by the Dutch workforce make it clear that the battles over the digging of the ditches were far from one-sided . |
| 15 | A few days later the sergeant called to say that the fingerprints on the envelope were not those of the gardener who had been dismissed and that the poor , wronged man had been given back his job . |
| 16 | A recruiting sergeant wore as a badge of office a plume of coloured ribbons in his shako ; when a young man had been persuaded to enlist he was handed a shilling to bind the contract . |
| 17 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 18 | The Hapsburgs ' man had been surprisingly frank with him about political and military topics . |
| 19 | There was a similar reaction after several bodies went missing from Britain 's biggest cemetery in Surrey in April 1988 , even after a man had been arrested and charged for decapitating a disinterred corpse . |
| 20 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 21 | While ‘ The Prophet ’ was asleep , a violent rainstorm swept across the countryside but when it ended and the farmer went to see how the fugitive minister had fared , he found that , miraculously , an area around the sleeping man had been left untouched by the rain . |
| 22 | When John confirmed his name , he was asked why he did not attend the curate 's services , to which he replied that the man had been appointed under the king 's law and not under God 's law . |
| 23 | The fastest man had been the American Carl Lewis , with 9.99 seconds ; the slowest was Samuel Birch of Liberia , with 11.68 . |
| 24 | The only consolation and the reason why Mrs Brodowitz was so well informed was that the man had been spotted by the military police and was now in prison . |
| 25 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |
| 26 | That young man had been full of laughter , a bright-eyed echo of her own youth , one whose passion and sensitivity had made her dare to dream of a permanent partnership . |
| 27 | If she heard on the News that a man had been murdered here , she might have thought it was me . |
| 28 | The police had been called and , following her description , a young man had been apprehended . |
| 29 | By the embers of the fire in the grate of the long kitchen , the burly man had been asleep in a chair . |
| 30 | Far more than the man had been denied was pressed upon him . |