Example sentences of "he had been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time that he had been past the big covered back porch of her house , and everything was new and interesting . |
| 2 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 3 | He had been through hell in the course of duty ; he had made sacrifices that would be asked of no other human being . |
| 4 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 5 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 6 | At the end of that time , working ceaselessly , he had been through every file in every office . |
| 7 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 8 | The uncle of 12-year-old Adele Thompson — killed by a joyrider in Toxteth , Liverpool — hit out : ‘ He would n't have said it if he had been through the heartache we have suffered . ’ |
| 9 | He had been through it before and had already told the Captain he was sure that was the car , though he had n't looked at the driver and front passenger , having been distracted by the map and by watching the traffic coming from all three directions because he wanted to cross over . |
| 10 | By mid-morning he had been through the day 's edition of the Herald Tribune . |
| 11 | He had been through the same mill a couple of years before . |
| 12 | He had been through college , and yet , he reflected , he was still ignorant of the continent to the north . |
| 13 | Knowing what he had been through just added a new dimension to what I saw . |
| 14 | He had been through the Night of Power . |
| 15 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 16 | Nobody was quite sure how many degrees he had started and not finished , not even Boris , but he had been at the place so long he could remember when they used to spell it Freshmen 's Fair . |
| 17 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |
| 18 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 19 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 20 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 21 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 22 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 23 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 24 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 25 | He had been at school almost six months , the most miserable time of his entire life . |
| 26 | John was not universally popular with his new colleagues any more than he had been at the Wells ; his ambition aroused suspicion , scorn , envy or fear in some , and his sense of fun ( including a rather observant line in mimicry ) left barbs in some of its victims . |
| 27 | Tom Poole , who had nursed his father devotedly at the end , was in low spirits , but was as instantly captivated by his visitor as he had been at their first meeting . |
| 28 | He had been at Cambridge just after the last war , had fought with the International Brigade in Spain and had joined the R.A.F. as an air-gunner in 194O . |
| 29 | He admitted modestly that it was a long time since he had been at school , but one phrase he had understood was ‘ Vive la link box ! ’ . |
| 30 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |