Example sentences of "george had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | As rude as George had been , the chairman shrugged and gave Jack a nod which was meaningful and sympathetic but which Jack ignored . |
| 2 | Crop failure in the previous year and the debilitating effects of war with France had brought national scarcity and popular protest by the end of 1795 , and in London , King George had been lucky to escape when his coach was attacked by stone-throwing crowds crying ‘ Bread ! |
| 3 | George had been gently lifted by his father and Bob Lamb and placed on the rug before the fire . |
| 4 | Ever since she had saved him in the snowstorm , George had been uncomfortably aware of her presence . |
| 5 | George had been tried out in a variety of parts , but each time he stepped on the stage he would stand with his legs and arms splayed out and drone monotonously . |
| 6 | Lloyd George had been the Liberal most hated before 1914 and . |
| 7 | The night of Mandy Kelly 's murder George had been out on one of his walks . |
| 8 | Jim said I appeared to be : George had been happy with a metal fence . |
| 9 | Rumour had it that Sir Hector 's influence was the only reason George had been taken on in the first place . |
| 10 | Libby and George had been trying to build a bridge with logs pulled from the wood and tied with twine from the farm to stop them rolling apart . |
| 11 | George had been toppled as Davidian leader . |
| 12 | He circulated two new rumours a day : cholera was sweeping Paris ; the Kaiser was in Rome looking for a divorce ; the kitchen was putting aphrodisiacs in the gravy ; Lloyd George had been charged with rape ; Switzerland had invaded Germany . |
| 13 | A Darlington woman wrote to Mr Tempest at his Wakefield home saying George had been best man at her wedding in 1947 and lived in Pierremont Road . |