Example sentences of "[verb] [conj] he [vb past] [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At the inquest held on the same day the jury found that he had been in a deranged state of mind , his friend Wilshere having given evidence to that effect . |
| 2 | Iain reported that he had been in touch with the Colvins and the Newis ( retired Methodist couple with experience in Africa ) and both of these had agreed to be a support to the Mafinyani 's . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 5 | Although in good spirits , Frank was even more withdrawn than he had been in the Pit . |
| 6 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 7 | Mr Aichi had had to withdraw his candidature for the governorship of Miyagi prefecture when it was revealed that he had been on the take . |
| 8 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 9 | Well , his theory was that this guy was a writer or something , a historian or somebody like that , and Freud said it 's quite likely that in the past he had had either dreams about a similar dream or conscious fantasies about how he would have felt if he 'd been in the French Revolution and what might have happened to him . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
| 12 | When he was caught driving in January , Ironside claimed that he had been on his way to look at the possibilities of a council house exchange . |
| 13 | Landlord Bill Long , who has since moved to another pub , gave evidence in support of the defendant , verifying that he had been within his sight for the time in question , except for a brief spell when he was collecting glasses . |
| 14 | Consequently he placed advertisements in Russian newspapers , stating that he had been in charge of the production and clarification of Veuve Clicquot wines for a number of years where he succeeded in achieving perfect limpidity . |
| 15 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 16 | I did wonder if he had been in his cups before we opened the wine but he assured me he had not . ’ |
| 17 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 18 | The police had arrived while he had been on stage , and a uniformed constable was now clearing the growing crowd round the Stage Door . |
| 19 | But Dyson 's opinion of him , which had risen noticeably on hearing that he had been at King 's , had fallen back to zero again ; his having been at King 's was cancelled out by his having been right about his instructions to join Dyson 's department . |
| 20 | They had no reason to suppose that he had been in pursuit of them , the western ride led in the general direction of the outlaws ' Great Camp and they presumed that was where he was going . |
| 21 | And she knew that he had been to The Bar over thirty times in seven weeks now . |
| 22 | Asked if he had been in touch with his 43-year-old wife , who is absent from their country home in Chippenham , Wilts , the brigadier said : ‘ Of course I have . ’ |
| 23 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 24 | Later he married abroad , and when Margery was about sixty years old brought his German wife and child on a visit to her , but died when he had been in England about a month . |
| 25 | There was no hurrying them , that 's what he had learned since he had been in Baghdad . |
| 26 | Edward Carrington much preferred his new companion , taken though he had been with Suzanne 's tired , tired eyes . |
| 27 | The climb had been no trouble to Harry , bred as he had been among the crags of Snowdon . |
| 28 | Rain asked whether he had been to Sabine Jourdain 's home . |
| 29 | The man said that he had been with a woman . |
| 30 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |