Example sentences of "[vb past] i he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 2 | He told me he 'd been to . |
| 3 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 4 | In the Ethiopian revolution no one for a long time knew the fate of Haile Fida , leader of the left-wing Meison group : I only had his death confirmed when the Ethiopian lift-operator in a DC hotel told me he had been in the same cell when Haile was taken out to be shot . |
| 5 | He told me he had been in Austria and he mentioned how ‘ handsome ’ he had found the people . |