Example sentences of "[prep] his [noun sg] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 2 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 3 | If one of his family had been in the same position surely he 'd expect a stiffer sentence than the one given today |
| 4 | Which MP claimed to be the first in a thousand generations of his family to have been to university ? |
| 5 | Dr Mardell said the last distribution of aid in Srebrenica before his arrival had been on 12 December and had provided four kilos of flour per family — enough for about one week . |
| 6 | A substantial contingent of men from his abbey had been among Louis the Pious 's forces in Aquitaine since the previous autumn , and when they returned to Ferrières in July 840 , they brought first-hand news of Gerard 's appointment as commander of Charles 's garrison at Limoges . |