Example sentences of "he had be [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Disappointment that Feargal was n't the man she had thought him had been replaced by a sadness for things not to be . |
| 2 | The middle-aged married couple who had been caretakers before him had been dismissed on the spot for gross drunkenness . |
| 3 | When the last goodbyes and blessings on him had been murmured by the ladies , two dimmed lanterns were provided by Mrs Prynn the housekeeper , and the priest was led down to the kitchens and into the stables , under the floor of which a tunnel led steeply down to the shore . |
| 4 | In fact , she knew it , for a picture of him had been smuggled to her . |
| 5 | So powerful had these embattled minorities become , that decent chaps like him had been forced upon the defensive . |
| 6 | Despite protests from all sides he did n't halt his labours until the body before him had been opened from navel to throat , and Dowd 's thrashings had ceased . |
| 7 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |
| 8 | In fact , as he later admitted in court , he had been represented by a lawyer from Newcastle at the time of signing to Virgin : not a music-business lawyer , it was true , but a lawyer none the less . |
| 9 | He had been met by the Defence Ministry people , who had taken him directly from the aircraft steps , but no one had said a word on the way into the city . |
| 10 | He had been sighted at Woodcote and again with the gypsies at the village of Checkendon . |
| 11 | According to Trubin , he had been implicated in the plot by SCSE members in custody . |
| 12 | Sabine Jourdain had been shot , Barbara Coleman had been abducted , someone had tried to strangle Rain , the reception clerk and Cobalt had been beaten up , and Rain and he had been chased through a maze by a man with a ferocious determination on his face . |
| 13 | In 1167 his army had been decimated before Rome by an outbreak of malaria ; and he had been chased over the Alps in humiliating disaster ; but still he plotted and planned to return to the task . |
| 14 | Rousseau challenged the Christian doctrine of Original Sin ; he believed that man was by nature good , and that he had been corrupted by civilization ; savages were uncorrupted . |
| 15 | The Welsh star was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 16 | As he plundered her mouth Jenna was faintly aware that there was very little anger left in him ; this was complete sensuality , no doubt because he had been robbed of an evening with Claudine in his arms . |
| 17 | In the first , he had been robbed of something on which he had set his heart ; in the second he was robbed of his life . |
| 18 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 19 | The Welshman was edged out by just two-hundredths of a second by his best friend , Mark McKoy — but could have been forgiven for feeling he had been robbed of gold after the Canadian had seemed to get away to a false start . |
| 20 | The story was , that unused to concealing money about his person , he had been robbed on the train and had had to return home . |
| 21 | The fact was , that he made the journey ; shabby and penniless , he had to look up addresses of kinsfolk in English towns ; he had been robbed by con-men on board the ship , for Dad was a simple , trusting person , one might say , naive . |
| 22 | Molotov concluded the parallel negotiations which he had been conducting with German representatives and thus secured two years grace while partitioning Poland with Nazi Germany . |
| 23 | As a hypnotherapist , he had been consulted by a lady called Virginia Tighe of Colorado . |
| 24 | Three months previously he had been invested with ‘ overall editorial control ’ . |
| 25 | But by 1646 he had been deprived of his parish and in 1648 he was expelled from Christ Church . |
| 26 | Foreign Affairs Minister Inonga Lokonga L'Omé died on June 19 in South Africa , where he had been flown after suffering a stroke . |
| 27 | Dauntless cursed the ballot through which he had been burdened with this particular region to patrol . |
| 28 | He had been lampooned by contemporary dramatists . |
| 29 | Up to then he had been supported by the British Council , who now passed the buck to Bloomsbury House . |
| 30 | Sirhan was immediately arrested , and apparently confessed to his interrogators that he had been acting on his own to avenge the Haram al-Sharif massacre . |