Example sentences of "he had been [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | He had been sighted at Woodcote and again with the gypsies at the village of Checkendon . |
| 4 | According to Trubin , he had been implicated in the plot by SCSE members in custody . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | The story was , that unused to concealing money about his person , he had been robbed on the train and had had to return home . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | As a hypnotherapist , he had been consulted by a lady called Virginia Tighe of Colorado . |
| 16 | Three months previously he had been invested with ‘ overall editorial control ’ . |
| 17 | But by 1646 he had been deprived of his parish and in 1648 he was expelled from Christ Church . |
| 18 | Foreign Affairs Minister Inonga Lokonga L'Omé died on June 19 in South Africa , where he had been flown after suffering a stroke . |
| 19 | Dauntless cursed the ballot through which he had been burdened with this particular region to patrol . |
| 20 | He had been lampooned by contemporary dramatists . |
| 21 | Up to then he had been supported by the British Council , who now passed the buck to Bloomsbury House . |
| 22 | James said he was told after the accident by the police that he had been recorded at 153 mph . |
| 23 | Once he and his henchman had been obliged to leave the wrecked apartment on the avenue Foch , he had been filled with apprehension at having to report his failure direct to Teheran . |
| 24 | True , at the start he had been filled with remorse . |
| 25 | Stanger also quite magnificently clawed down Proctor after he had been uncorked in his own 22 by the largely negative Neil Jenkins ( who had two goal-kicking failures ) , Rayer and Ricky Evans having capitalised on a Scottish attack short-circuiting . |
| 26 | His fellow travellers saw him praying to the Emperor , as he had been schooled to . |
| 27 | ‘ He was not in the premier division of drugs dealers in Belfast and police have no reason to contradict his assertion that he had been involved for a short time , ’ the Crown lawyer added . |
| 28 | He had been criticized for failing to do enough to prevent a spate of serious attacks on foreign workers and asylum-seekers in the state , and had also been accused of working for the Stasi . |
| 29 | Latterly , he had been criticized for being more concerned about " restoring dignity to politics " and strengthening Slovenia 's Catholic and conservative traditions than about solving the economic problems resulting from communist rule and independence . |
| 30 | Recently , however , he had been criticized by fellow Republicans as ineffective at a time when education was increasingly achieving national prominence as a key domestic issue . |