Example sentences of "[vb past] he [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 3 | Connolly denied the charges but the court heard that swabs taken from his hands indicated he had been in contact with explosives and that he was found in possession of a key to the front door of the second house . |
| 4 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |
| 5 | Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything . |
| 6 | His mother Diane and girlfriend Donna Williams said he had been at home with them . |
| 7 | Roderick Hunt , defending Brooklyn , said he had been in custody for five weeks . |
| 8 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |
| 9 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |