Example sentences of "james had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Three days before the battle , James had been with his army . |
| 2 | James had been very considerate . |
| 3 | They had spent a pleasant evening , and James had been most solicitous when he took his leave . |
| 4 | The only lodgings James had been able to afford were so squalid he had scarcely been able to concentrate on his studies for the cold each winter , and the thought of a house and a wife to warm his bed had been added incentive to pursue marriage plans with Maud Rollerson . |
| 5 | Dad was told how naughty James had been and then shouted at him and sent him to the bedroom . |
| 6 | Leo , bless him , was as ugly as sin ; and James had been referred to by more than one gossip columnist as a sex symbol . |
| 7 | The Monastery of Saint James had been quite destroyed , and they passed it without halting . |
| 8 | In 1800 he became assistant to the latter , who at the same time gave him a post in the Office of Works as labourer in trust at Carlton House and also employed him in connection with his work as surveyor of the ordnance ; his first recorded works — minor country-house commissions in Staffordshire , of 1803–5 — were designed in James 's office for execution by the Wyatt family building business ; and in 1805 he submitted designs for Downing College , Cambridge , after those by James had been severely criticized by Thomas Hope [ q.v. ] , perhaps in an attempt to salvage the commission for the family . |
| 9 | James had been head shepherd and farm manager since her parents ' death , he had guided the young Iskandara through the pitfalls of estate management , helping her to hire and fire , to plant with trees the slopes that would not take sheep , to deal with poachers on the river , maintain the roads and fences . |
| 10 | The decision was that it was unlawful direct discrimination because Mr James had been treated differently than if he had been a woman . |
| 11 | Many Whigs took the line that James had been deposed because he had broken his original contract with the people . |
| 12 | And although Whigs under Anne liked to claim that James had been deposed for breaking his original contract with the people , they found it a credible way of embarrassing their political opponents to argue that it was the Tories who had been responsible for James 's downfall . |
| 13 | The courtheard Mr James had been arguing with his pregnant girlfriend 16 year old Jessie Barnes at the time . |
| 14 | The prosecution says it belonged to Westmore James , the defence say it could have been owned by Ian Barnes and Westmore James had been acting inself defence . |