Example sentences of "[pers pn] [verb] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 2 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 3 | They admit he 'd been in trouble before but say he did n't deserve to die this way . |
| 4 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 5 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 6 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 7 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 8 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |
| 9 | He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers . |
| 10 | He said he 'd been to the pub and had 2 pints and that someone else was driving . |
| 11 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |
| 12 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 13 | He wanted us to think he 'd been in Retford . |