Example sentences of "he had [been] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dauntless cursed the ballot through which he had been burdened with this particular region to patrol . |
| 2 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 3 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 4 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 5 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |
| 6 | Alexei had expected to be seated beside Tulagai and Targoutai , the half-brothers of Nogai and T'zin , but instead he had been led to this place beside Siban . |
| 7 | Every kind of reason for it went through her mind : the doctor had given him six months to live , his family was moving away from the area , he had been transferred to another school . |
| 8 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 9 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 10 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 11 | A 13 year old boy from Kent described as ‘ borderline autistic ’ reported to his mother that he had been buggered by another pupil at his residential school . |
| 12 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 13 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 14 | as if he had been struck by some unseen force into stillness , he stopped , his right arm still embracing an imaginary figure , his left arm extended . |
| 15 | He had been seen on several levels of the North Star site . |
| 16 | He had been summoned to this meeting at short notice . |
| 17 | The possibility that he had been killed for some reason connected with his father 's letters did not occur to Derek . |
| 18 | Although Duke had contested the election as a Republican , he had been disowned by most of the party 's establishment , and the official Republican candidate had withdrawn from the contest in order to avoid splitting the anti-Duke vote . |
| 19 | On each previous occasion he had been acquitted on all charges . |
| 20 | Somehow he had been infused with some of its magic — that word again , he thought wryly . |
| 21 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 22 | It was probably the first time he had been asked for such a drink , despite his long years of service . |
| 23 | The sermon he preached was scholarly , and explained why he had been called to this well-found charge and to the chaplaincy . |
| 24 | He had been called like this only three times before — to her knowledge . |
| 25 | He had been called from this office to so many bodies , in such different settings , such different states of dissolution , old , young , pathetic , horrifying , having in common only the one fact , that they were violently dead and by another 's hand . |
| 26 | Not for the first time Rostov wondered why he had been selected for this particular mission . |
| 27 | He had been pushed into this bloody situation by the need to attract public sympathy , and yet had been stupid enough to let the manifest idiocy of his questioners drive him to make a most unsympathetic exhibition of himself . |
| 28 | However I had perceived that he had been caught in that familiar predicament of being obliged to continue to the end of a story which half-way through he repented of having begun . |
| 29 | He sounded embarrassed , as though he had been caught in some misdemeanour . |
| 30 | As a young man he had been pursued by many women ; that he secretly despised them did not lessen his attractiveness but in later years his large family and increasing years had hung about him with a weight as great as any deformity : but he would never risk exposing himself as Rose had . |