Example sentences of "he had been [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I could have understood it in Cottee 's case if he had been sweating blood for Everton . |
| 2 | He had been wanting reassurance for a long time and he had n't been getting any . |
| 3 | He had been warm-up man for the Pope on his tour of the Republic ; he was always on Irish radio and television . |
| 4 | He was a national hero , he had been Supreme Commander in South East Asia during the Second World War , the last Viceroy and first Governor General of India , first Sea Lord , and finally Chief of the Defence Staff . |
| 5 | He had been Private Secretary to my uncle when he was Viceroy , and later Chief Commissioner of the North-West Frontier of India before he went to the Sudan . |
| 6 | These were papers , filling two volumes , left unpublished at Hunter 's death , which Owen dedicated to the Royal College of Surgeons , where from 1837 he had been Hunterian Professor . |
| 7 | As we drove back to the airport Smith said that at the end of the war he had been executive officer at a naval air base in California , and that one of the officers there had been a certain Lieutenant Richard Milhous Nixon . |
| 8 | The biggest irony of all is that probably no single factor proved more damaging than the contribution of the man who we were told was so universally respected and popular that , if he had been Labour leader instead of Neil Kinnock , Labour 's lead in the polls would have been 49 to 33 . |
| 9 | For years he had been close friends with Kevin McCarthy and his wife . |
| 10 | He had been chief executive of Glaxo — and ironically had been responsible for selling Evans to its management . |
| 11 | He had been chief engineer to the Central Electricity Board , and would have preferred the division of duties to have left the control of generation and transmission to the ex-CEB engineers and himself . |
| 12 | He had been convinced Anna was with Seb . |
| 13 | He had been vice president , Digital Services . |
| 14 | He had been vice president and general manager of OEM Division there for five years . |
| 15 | In the 1988 General Election in Sweden the Social Democrats had a huge sympathy vote lingering on after the murder of Olaf Palme while he had been Prime Minister some years before . |
| 16 | He had been Prime Minister for nearly seven years in all when he produced that judgement . |
| 17 | He had been Prime Minister for eight years and 241 days . |
| 18 | He had been temporary chargé d'affaires at the Netherlands embassy in Baghdad from September to October 1990 , but the Tunisian Foreign Ministry on March 1 said that initial investigations suggested no political motives . |
| 19 | He had been senior consultant engineer at the company 's System Research Center in Palo Alto , California . |
| 20 | He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge . |
| 21 | He had been Conservative Party whip and leader of the House of Commons . |
| 22 | He had been local organiser for the National Union of Tailors and Garment Workers but in 1952 he led a breakaway which two years later merged with the ITGWU . |
| 23 | He had been o– form lately . |
| 24 | Gorbachev removed Bakatin as USSR Minister of Internal Affairs on Dec. 2 , appointing in his place Boris Pugo , the ethnic-Latvian chair of the CPSU central control commission and a major-general in the KGB ( he had been Latvian KGB chief in 1980-84 ) . |
| 25 | Two days earlier he had been driving troop carriers at Kuchino , one of the KGB 's training centres outside Moscow , and now he 'd been asked to drive for General Benin no less . |