Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 2 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He 'd been off having fun too much . |
| 5 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 6 | He could n't believe what he 'd done , that he 'd been into Mrs Wright 's house , into her bedroom even , when she was out . |
| 7 | The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties . |
| 8 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
| 9 | Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised . |
| 10 | He 'd been over the limit , they 'd said , when he 'd crashed his BMW , and there could have been no sympathy whatsoever for him from the relatives of the woman killed in the other car . |
| 11 | And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent . |
| 12 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 13 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 14 | It was an ignoble , unworthy thought , he knew , but he was — now , anyway — only human , and therefore prey to human weaknesses , whatever sort of superhuman he 'd been during the War . |
| 15 | Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book . |
| 16 | He 'd been on the binge of all time , wrecking cars , hitting her , almost breaking two of her fingers . |
| 17 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 18 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 19 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 20 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 21 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
| 22 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 23 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |
| 24 | He 'd been on a management course from which he had returned to speak of God as ‘ the perfect chairman of our meetings . ’ |
| 25 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 26 | He 'd been on the roads for days and they still retained their winter mire , despite the advent of finer spring weather . |
| 27 | However the assignment took a little bit longer than it er than if he 'd been on the other product range . |
| 28 | The Marquess of Blandford is back in prison tonight , charged with assualting two police officers who were trying to arrest him after he 'd been on the run for four days . |
| 29 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 30 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |