Example sentences of "time he [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 3 | Only several weeks later , as she lay stifling in her cabin on a filthy steamer from Trebizond , did she reflect that the Kurd , in the whole time he had been with them , had executed Miss Fergusson 's commands with punctiliousness and honour ; further , that she had no means of knowing what had passed between the two of them that last night in the cave . |
| 4 | As Elijah Moshinsky looked out from the roof-top coffee shop of the plush hotel overlooking Plymouth Hoe — in which he is ensconced during rehearsals of Shadowlands — he confessed that this was the first time he had been to Plymouth in his life . |
| 5 | Athelstan stood in the hallway looking carefully around for this was the first time he had been to Cranston 's house and met his wife . |
| 6 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 7 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 8 | But the last time he had been in the headlines , people had known him by a different name — Chris Bott . |
| 9 | The last time he had been in Athens , when the group that called themselves ‘ November 17th ’ had hit the Procter & Gamble offices with an anti-tank rocket , he had not been admitted to the presence of this big man . |
| 10 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 11 | It was unfair , because last time he had been in the thick of the fighting when the message came , and Tuathal had fought to be beside him . |
| 12 | Patrick says the last time he ran was in Gloucester was in driving wind and rain |
| 13 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 14 | He said : ‘ He has maintained a silence throughout the time he has been in custody . |
| 15 | But then again , that 's the first time he 's been in ring since |