Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 2 | Capt. Eliecer Gaitán , the security chief under Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega , was reported to have escaped on Sept. 16 from the apostolic nunciature in Panamá City , where he had been in refuge since Dec. 23 following the US invasion . |
| 3 | In his resignation speech , Gorbachev asserted that although he had been in favour of " the independence and self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of republics " , he had also believed in " preserving the union state and the country 's integrity " . |
| 4 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 5 | I thought she was a vexing girl , and judged that Byron thought the same ; but he was a lot more patient with her than he had been with Polidori . |
| 6 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |
| 7 | He was more casually dressed than he had been in London . |
| 8 | He was no less prompt here than he had been in Wales . |
| 9 | In no time at all , he was faster than he had been in practice , something I have never seen since in a race by a leading driver . |
| 10 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 11 | The driver stopped to complain but was told it was his own fault — if he had been on time the ball would have missed . |
| 12 | Besides , if he had been to Tyler 's Hard , he would doubtless have recognized Harry from Morpurgo 's account of a strange visitor the previous Saturday . |
| 13 | She pushed herself back against the wall to avoid touching a man but as Owen pressed past her he was as conscious of her roundnesses and softnesses as if he had been in bed beside her . |
| 14 | If he had been in charge , we would have been out of the Community , because that was the basis of his election campaign . |
| 15 | if he had been in charge , things would have been very different . |
| 16 | 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 . ’ |
| 17 | If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden . |
| 18 | I know that you came only to honour dear Crabb , at a small informal party , because he had been of assistance to your illustrious father , and valued his work at a time when it meant a great deal to him . |
| 19 | A YOUNG policeman helped to crack a lorry hijacking , the Crown claimed yesterday , because he had been in school with the man accused of abducting the driver and stealing spirits , food and tobacco . |
| 20 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 21 | But he missed out because he had been in Copenhagen trying for a place in the Olympic team . |
| 22 | This is much more credible than Bourke 's story and suggests that in reality Bourke was no more than a go-between because he had been in prison with Blake . |
| 23 | Just as Elisha could answer the widow 's need because he had been in touch with his Lord , so the Holy Spirit is God 's agent to keep us in touch with Him , and to make us pure . |
| 24 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 25 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 26 | Considering he had been in possession of a thousand a year from carefully invested family money , a very good unearned income in 1925 , he had not done well . |
| 27 | The police had arrived while he had been on stage , and a uniformed constable was now clearing the growing crowd round the Stage Door . |
| 28 | He admitted modestly that it was a long time since he had been at school , but one phrase he had understood was ‘ Vive la link box ! ’ . |
| 29 | Robert had seen the development in varying stages , and had assisted in shipping out tons of building materials , but it was four months since he had been to Barbados and a lot of progress had been made since then . |
| 30 | It was ten years since he had been in Europe . |