Example sentences of "where he had be " in BNC.
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| 1 | The letter-writer is an orthopaedic surgeon who was taken off a plane as he was about to make a short visit to the UK where he had been a post-graduate student . |
| 2 | As I crouched against the wall which offered some protection against the rain , the mortar team Corporal got up from the grass where he had been sitting and , crossing over to the small pile of H.E . |
| 3 | And when Alexander Korda returned from America , where he had been supporting Britain 's propaganda effort , with the intention of competing with Rank , he had to use bravado and charm where Rank had cash . |
| 4 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 5 | Unable to take up residence in the Baabda palace occupied by Gen Aoun , this was where he had been conducting his consultations for the formation of a government of national unity . |
| 6 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 7 | Mr Koc remained in hospital for six days , and was then taken back to the small hotel where he had been staying since his arrival in London . |
| 8 | The God he had seen , or half seen , while riding a tricycle down the long cobbled road which passed the house where he had been born . |
| 9 | He studied law before the war and during it worked with the resistance in Prague where he had been born . |
| 10 | A squirrel skittering on the branches of a lilac drew the Colonel 's attention upwards , away from the ground where he had been digging the soil around his feet with the tip of his walking stick . |
| 11 | At one time Prime considered defecting to Russia where he had been promised a KGB colonel 's pension for life . |
| 12 | He returned to Los Angeles and then caught a plane to Europe where he had been invited to show the finished article at the Venice Film Festival at which The Last Movie was voted the best picture on exhibition . |
| 13 | The first was Jock Lewes who was in Tobruk , where he had been successfully carrying out small raids against the surrounding enemy outposts . |
| 14 | He also had to be reminded to write to her , which he did ( in later years ) about every six weeks , just a dutiful account of where he had been , what he had done , with little of his usual animation . |
| 15 | He had borrowed it from a fellow inmate of the lodging house in Kennington where he had been staying for the last week . |
| 16 | Or had she just seen him one day , walking around the suburb where he had been born , and said to him , in that sharp voice she used for all commands : ‘ Marry Me ! ’ |
| 17 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 18 | To an extent the penned hands were also dependent on the nationality of the scribe or where he had been trained . |
| 19 | Robert had returned from Italy where he had been serving ever since he had been commissioned eighteen months before . |
| 20 | Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland , where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen , but it was , amazingly , as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace . |
| 21 | Sometimes on Sundays he would take her to the fields where he had been helping with the harvest , to see the rabbits , or a nest of mice . |
| 22 | Jean-Paul 's body was pale , flushed red on face , neck and arms where he had been burned by the sun . |
| 23 | ‘ Party , party , ’ she yelled out to break the spell and Hosanna ran from where he had been sitting watching her . |
| 24 | William Cossart arrived in Madeira in 1808 from Ireland , where he had been the agent for Newton , Gordon , Murdoch & Co . |
| 25 | But the marriage of Benjamin and Elizabeth took place neither there , nor in the City where he was then living , but back in the parish where he had been born : St George 's in the East , Stepney . |
| 26 | Mr Bates , of Brackley , Northants , hit and killed a scientist on a bicycle on his way back from a business meeting in London where he had been drinking wine and sherry , the Court heard . |
| 27 | Further theological and pastoral training came at St Augustine 's Missionary College , Canterbury , where Arthur Knight was Warden , after being invalided home from Burma , where he had been Bishop of Rangoon from 1902 to 1910 . |
| 28 | The victim was slumped over a freezer where he had been searching for a gas leak . |
| 29 | In January 1983 Mansur Rajih was arrested in Yemen by members of al-Amn al-Watani ( National Security ) on his return from Lebanon where he had been a university student . |
| 30 | He had been with them for some time ; two or three years before , he had told her that he did n't know where he had been born , or who his parents were . |