Example sentences of "robert had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Robert had been called up in the First Militia , as it was named , the beginning of National Service which was to continue until some years after the war ended . |
| 2 | Walter , the youngest boy , had the most distant relationship with his father ; he and Robert had been sent to boarding school and had seen even less of John than their sisters . |
| 3 | Robert had been attracted to her ‘ lively mind ’ , feeling himself inadequate with words . |
| 4 | At one time Robert had been afraid she would become too tall for the stage , but her height remained ideal at five foot six . |
| 5 | The messenger had been sent by a group of Annan citizens loyal to the Bruce connection ; after all , the late King Robert had been the sixth Bruce Lord of Annandale . |
| 6 | After all James was of the Stewart dynasty , so called because his ancestor Robert had been High Steward of Scotland , and had succeeded to the throne on the death of David II in 1371 . |
| 7 | Robert had been back to the gallery , to the annoyance , I felt sure , of the owner . |
| 8 | I thought that this was a painting I should n't discuss with Lili , but only when I had walked to the end of the gallery to look at an innocuous picture of a group of long-haired sheep did I ask myself what Robert had been doing in Marie Claire 's bedroom . |
| 9 | On one level I knew that Robert had been unfaithful to Lili and on another I knew that he could n't possibly have been . |
| 10 | Prior Robert might not have been very greatly grieved if Tutilo had been made to pay for his outrageous offence with his skin , but Prior Robert had been at dinner with the abbot and several other witnesses that night , and in any case could hardly be imagined as lurking in wet woods to strike down the delinquent with his own elegant hands . |
| 11 | His grandfather had been a British general in the Indian Army but Robert had been fatherless from the age of seven when his father was attacked by a gang of hooligans in Fleet Street , London , and died shortly afterwards . |
| 12 | Robert had been taken prisoner in his turn and , for the time being , hostilities had ceased while both sides licked their wounds and took stock of the situation . |
| 13 | Robert had been vague about them on an embarrassing number of occasions . |
| 14 | This was the one question Robert had been hoping the headmaster would not ask him . |
| 15 | At first Sophie listened with only mild interest as the other girl spoke of her involvement in veterinary work , which had begun when she had worked as a receptionist in a large practice in Shropshire , where Robert had been senior assistant . |