Example sentences of "[noun pl] [conj] he [verb] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | During the fifteen months that he had been in prison his black hair had turned grey and his features had lost their definition . |
| 2 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 3 | In the autumn of 1955 , some six months after he had been in Berlin , Blake approached his superiors with the suggestion that he should pretend to become an agent working for the Russians . |
| 4 | The Tories are , wisely , keeping their boy away from most of the rough stuff — rightly recognising that such strengths as he has are in his niceness — but he has to look like he wants to win sometimes . |
| 5 | In choosing to prioritize this characteristic , Bell draws attention to the occupational groups that he considers are in possession of this knowledge — the professional and technical groups . |
| 6 | When he was told that what he had said was all very well but a bit negative , he fell back on the 13 wasted years that he has been in opposition . |
| 7 | It was ten years since he had been in Europe . |
| 8 | The seller should of course resist such warranties because of their vagueness , and insist that , if he is to give such a warranty , the purpose should be clearly specified in the contract , with sufficient detail to enable him to be sure that the goods that he supplies are in fact suitable for that purpose . |
| 9 | One occasionally has a glimpse of Green 's neighbours after he has been with them , or heard of their deaths , when he liked to write their obituaries . |
| 10 | She added that he had later asked her to tell detectives that he had been at home all Saturday night . |
| 11 | Mr Escobar confirmed reports that he had been in contact with the government for over 12 months prior to the crackdown , ordered after the drug-related slayings of a presidential candidate and two other top officials . |
| 12 | Wade Dooley is by no means the only player who was apt to be more profitable under the old laws than he has been under the new . |
| 13 | He was rude to officials and contemptuous of backbenchers less successful in their careers than he had been since becoming MP for Putney in 1979 . |