Example sentences of "john had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Uncle John had been killed in the War . |
| 2 | Philip sat down on the wet scree thinking about the War , and Arnhem where Great Uncle John had been killed . |
| 3 | She had never got used to the hours since John had been made redundant when all the ships were laid up . |
| 4 | Lionel Luyt told me that it was only when he reached Europe a few years later that he realized how far ahead of his South African contemporaries John had been , doing things which he must have invented for himself because he had not had the chance to see them put into practice by others . |
| 5 | Now it was time for our first venture out ; luckily the yard was situated amidst very quiet roads , and my husband John had been loaned a schoolmaster called Paddy to act as escort . |
| 6 | The miners who had escaped , knew immediately that John had been left behind but did not know whether he had been entombed alive or buried under the rock . |
| 7 | She had tried to locate him for over two years , in both America and Canada , where John had been living and working for a number of years . |
| 8 | John had been at Suzanne 's hospital bedside since early last Monday when she was found naked with 80 per cent burns in Stockport , Greater Manchester . |
| 9 | John had been the last of his generation . |
| 10 | Liza had written some weeks ago to say that John had been sent , at only a few hours ' notice , on a course . |
| 11 | Young John had been delighted . |
| 12 | ‘ It seems as if John had been waiting for them to leave . |
| 13 | He left a Bonnie Raitt concert early , and his review was the only one that omitted to mention that Elton John had been an unexpected guest . |
| 14 | John had been best man ; he looked so beautiful in morning dress , far more handsome than the groom . |
| 15 | If John had been of the same family as Jesus , moreover , his ‘ seal of approval ’ would have carried the additional authority of a royal warrant . |
| 16 | His son John had been the first editor of The Stopfordian in 1929 . |
| 17 | On this occasion John had been breeding from a group of Aspidoras lakoi and kindly offered me a couple of pairs to try . |
| 18 | John had been alerted to the possibility of profit and so he sentenced the Honourable Alexander Augustus to a stiff course of Lake Tourism into the Jaws of Borrowdale . |
| 19 | Sir John had been a Conservative councillor and had presided over the National Industrial Relations Court for the two and a half years of its existence during the Heath administration . |
| 20 | I thought back to something Barbara had said not long before , that John had been the glue that bonded all his friends together , the magnet which drew everyone closer . |
| 21 | Sarah told her that her father and John had been discussing the possibility of war with Germany , but they had hastily changed the subject when her mother came in . |
| 22 | John had been moved to Norfolk and promoted to Corporal and he wrote to Anne nearly every day , loving letters which helped to make her grief for her mother more bearable . |
| 23 | She told Anne that she could understand how she felt as John had been born when his father was in France during the First World War . |
| 24 | John had been loading coals into a wagon on the instructions of another driver and then , to use his own words " I went to pick some chickens out of the breeze " and whilst doing so was attacked . |
| 25 | Er my brother John had been er gone to work for the Bank in and unfortunately was drowned in an accident when he was not quite twenty . |
| 26 | There had at one time , Agnes had told her , been a full complement of horses and hounds , for Sir John had been a keen sportsman . |
| 27 | She and John had been together again , as they had in their very first year . |
| 28 | John had been made redundant and their house was repossessed . |
| 29 | The inquest heard that John had been drinking but was cheerful not drunk . |
| 30 | But I thought John had been put into a job that in fact he was born to and getting his teeth into |