Example sentences of "[verb] [subord] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Although in good spirits , Frank was even more withdrawn than he had been in the Pit . |
| 3 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 … |
| 6 | I did wonder if he had been in his cups before we opened the wine but he assured me he had not . ’ |
| 7 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 8 | The police had arrived while he had been on stage , and a uniformed constable was now clearing the growing crowd round the Stage Door . |
| 9 | 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 . ’ |
| 10 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | There was no hurrying them , that 's what he had learned since he had been in Baghdad . |
| 13 | Edward Carrington much preferred his new companion , taken though he had been with Suzanne 's tired , tired eyes . |
| 14 | The climb had been no trouble to Harry , bred as he had been among the crags of Snowdon . |
| 15 | Rain asked whether he had been to Sabine Jourdain 's home . |
| 16 | He was more casually dressed than he had been in London . |
| 17 | My father once wrote after he had been to the French Legation to dine : " A forty-minute ride across two ravines and a swamp , then a shocking road up to the house on a moonless night is really no fun . " |
| 18 | Resisted and resented though he had been at every turn , he nonetheless detected a direction to his enquiries that promised to become an unwavering course . |