Example sentences of "[noun sg] had been [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Archdeacon did not , diplomatically , point out that the Bishop had not consulted Lord Dersingham when the living had been in his gift . |
| 2 | The plan had been for his son ( Frederick William ) Robin ( born 1936 ) , who succeeded as third earl and was himself the author of an excellent life of William Wilberforce [ q.v. ] , to complete it . |
| 3 | The boy had been in his tutelage now for two and a half years , closer far to him than to his own Lancaster kin . |
| 4 | The first move had been in his choice of the katana as the weapon of combat . |
| 5 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 6 | The signalman , knowing that this train had been in his section for some time and was overdue , set his points and signal from the up main to the up goods loop to allow the up passenger train , following the goods , to run past without any unnecessary delay . |
| 7 | He stated that a man with an accent had been to his shop at about 1.30pm on 22 June . |
| 8 | And revenge had been in his mind when playing the joke on Music Week . |
| 9 | He had filled his pockets with stones , but the drama of the landscape had been beyond his understanding . |
| 10 | Madeleine 's second visit had been before his long slide into melancholy . |