Example sentences of "he had been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been at such pains . |
| 2 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 7 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 8 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 9 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 15 | Rain asked whether he had been to Sabine Jourdain 's home . |
| 16 | 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 ) : |
| 17 | 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 … . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
| 20 | He had been in other worlds beside Ridgery Butts , the Yorkshire Dales and the long miles between , and thieving and creeping and running and looking after himself ; but Marian knew only the Ridgery and remembered very faintly some other sort of life , a memory of glints and patches of a different sort of sunlight . |
| 21 | He had been in good health , and had been subjected to no particular strain or exertion . |
| 22 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 23 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 24 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 25 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 26 | Pike is n't a big guy , but he did this like he had been in secret weight-training . |
| 27 | Her husband , Stuart , 52 , said yesterday he had been in daily contact with her since she flew to Canada last month on the second pilgrimage to find her son . |
| 28 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
| 29 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 30 | Although Sorley was to make light of the experience , he had been in considerable danger . |