Example sentences of "he had been [vb pp] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Despite protests from all sides he did n't halt his labours until the body before him had been opened from navel to throat , and Dowd 's thrashings had ceased . |
| 2 | He had been sighted at Woodcote and again with the gypsies at the village of Checkendon . |
| 3 | Rousseau challenged the Christian doctrine of Original Sin ; he believed that man was by nature good , and that he had been corrupted by civilization ; savages were uncorrupted . |
| 4 | The Welsh star was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 5 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 6 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend , Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 7 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 8 | Once he and his henchman had been obliged to leave the wrecked apartment on the avenue Foch , he had been filled with apprehension at having to report his failure direct to Teheran . |
| 9 | True , at the start he had been filled with remorse . |
| 10 | He had been detained under section 37 of the Mental Health Act , and the order would have lapsed if he had remained at large for 28 days , unless there was fresh evidence of mental illness . |
| 11 | He had been detained in connection with a fraud investigation . |
| 12 | The first arose out of the practice announced in Mr. Brittan 's statement of 30 November 1983 of seeking the views of the judiciary on the tariff for a prisoner when he had been detained in custody for about three years . |
| 13 | Earlier , he had been detained by fraud police from North Yorkshire investigating alleged offences under the Banking Act . |
| 14 | he had been delayed by Joseph Hyde who had wanted to discuss the night 's events again and again , working out possible and probable courses of action ; from experience , Patrick knew the stout bookseller would do nothing . |
| 15 | He knew he was wealthy , set up for life , but he was already being made to pay for the taking of those lives : almost every night since , he had been troubled by dreams in which he found himself face to face once more with his victims . |
| 16 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 17 | They assumed that he had been absorbed by machinery of some kind ; since his own individual chromosomatic make-up was principally metallic . |
| 18 | Ramsgate had tired of the honour of his presence and he had been sent to Sandwich , under whose jurisdiction the Broadstairs police force came . |
| 19 | Precisely why he had been sent to Tonga — what special knowledge or circumstance — was never explained and , sitting as I did for many an evening on the veranda of the magnificent old Residency , watching the fireflies and listening to the surf booming on the reef , I was not too sorely tempted to enquire . |
| 20 | He had been sent to Belpan by Colonel Smith as bait for gun-runners . |
| 21 | When he was living in his body , he had it made over so many times that there was hardly any of what he had been born with left . |
| 22 | He had been born to money , power , and good looks ; with a combination like that at his command , why would he hesitate about anything ? |
| 23 | He had been born on Easter Day , surely the most hopeful date in all the year . |
| 24 | He had been born on March 30th 1853 . |
| 25 | Although he had been born in Wine Street , Bristol , his cloth-making ancestors had come from Wellington , and his grandfather had farmed in the remote Somerset hamlet of Rich 's Holford below the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills ; his eccentric uncle , John , was comfortably established in a ‘ most delightful villa ’ a mile from Taunton , and Bath had intermittently been Southey 's own home since childhood . |
| 26 | He had been born in Coatbridge , Glasgow in 1962 and been inside periodically from the age of seventeen . |
| 27 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 28 | He had been born in May 1940 and he died in November of the same year . |
| 29 | He had been born in America of American parents . |
| 30 | If he had been born in England he would have been put in care by now . |