Example sentences of "he [vb past] [be] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The answer he got was in the line that Frank looked uninspired in training ( well as ‘ inspired ’ as Deano looks from time to time in the games i guess Deano most look — very — inspired in training ) . |
| 2 | Dingwall Sheriff Court fined Richard Michalek of Duncanstown , Ross-shire , a hefty £4,000 after he admitted being in possession of 14 dead wild birds . |
| 3 | He admitted being in breach of bail and in breach of a probation order . |
| 4 | If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden . |
| 5 | He 'd been in the War , him and Uncle John . |
| 6 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 7 | It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt . |
| 8 | They had altered the street route system since last he 'd been in the place . |
| 9 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 10 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 11 | He wanted us to think he 'd been in Retford . |
| 12 | He 'd been in his share of fistfights had Mr Fearon . |
| 13 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 14 | She used to wonder where he 'd been in the meantime , but not any more . |
| 15 | He spent money that he had n't got and twice he 'd been in a duel . |
| 16 | Ooh that No I could n't answer that er only the fact that er he 'd been in the pet business , all his life . |
| 17 | He 'd been in the penthouse flat since about nine that evening , trying to watch TV , trying to listen to music but with no success . |
| 18 | He 'd been in the house once before . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | So you , you could put him into property , erm but erm I do n't know if he 'd been in the U K for the last few years whether he 'd be that keen on commercial property . |
| 21 | He 'd been in the house for nearly six weeks now and although he had not yet been called upon to take part in a Vibrancy performance , he had all the time in the world to practise . |
| 22 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 23 | " Can you estimate how long he 'd been in the water ? " |
| 24 | But he 'd been in his prime then , a match for any King Lud who 'd taken it into his weak head to break into the Dallam weaving sheds , in the dead of night , and start smashing his machines to bits . |
| 25 | He 'd been in his vigorous prime then , all right . |
| 26 | Maxim looked at the clutter of parts in front of him and realised how right he 'd been in saying soldiers hate to throw away guns , even cheap Spanish ones . |
| 27 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 28 | The Membership List revealed he 'd been in his present parish for six years , was unmarried , had written a book , The Railways of Norfolk , 1890 to 1940 , published by Jarrolds , and was , in addition to being Vicar of St Clements Bestwick , chaplain to the Sisters of St Sylvester , East Soken , near Diss . |
| 29 | Then the , the Assistant Secretary for Education was erm a very interesting chap erm he was a Mr A O D and erm he was , he had erm an elementary school background , he had n't a degree or any qualification but he 'd been in so long that er he 'd worked his way up to erm , s erm to Assistant Secretary for Education and he was a jolly chap and erm and he produced a , a dictionary of erm , of the Suffolk dialect which has became quite erm , quite a classic work really |
| 30 | There was one chap with her , he 'd been in oh for years . |