Example sentences of "the [noun] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | All he knew was that compared with the trollop he had been with the day before , she was like a princess , a very untouchable snow princess seven years older than he , who had recently lost her husband . |
| 2 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 3 | ‘ If the sums he mentioned are to be believed , it puts a most terrible responsibility on my shoulders . ’ |
| 4 | Even one of the ‘ enemy ’ admired the ‘ valour and stoutness ’ of the Cornishmen and ‘ … never in all the wars he had been in did he know the like ’ . |
| 5 | The answer he got was in the line that Frank looked uninspired in training ( well as ‘ inspired ’ as Deano looks from time to time in the games i guess Deano most look — very — inspired in training ) . |
| 6 | Slowly , savouring the moment , Harry opened the letter he knew was from Madeleine . |
| 7 | The florist was closed , and they 'd put the fresh stock away , so that when Boy looked in through the first window the flowers he saw were of silk ; all artificial , but so good that they were better and fresher than the real thing , and certainly more expensive . |
| 8 | The ones he had were in Arabic , French and English . |
| 9 | At that time there were never any buskers in Baker Street station and the ones he saw were at Leicester Square or Green Park . |
| 10 | But the exception he contemplated was in respect of a particular type of statute , namely , a statute creating criminal liability in which the question was whether or not a guilty intention was required to create liability . |
| 11 | Since joining the BDDA he had been to every one of its Congresses and his inclusion as third member of this select trio was extremely popular . |
| 12 | By the atmosphere he had been in which , she knew , was pure poison . |
| 13 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 14 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |
| 15 | Within minutes he had reached the streets leading to the allotment gardens that he would skirt , to find the phone box he had been using all the time he had been in hiding . |
| 16 | We had been told at the time he had been in trouble before . |
| 17 | When I was a bit older , I thought he was probably a thief and that the bag he carried was for the loot . ’ |
| 18 | Philip saw a photograph of the house he 'd been to with Mrs Wright , only it was a different time of year . |
| 19 | He liked to give the impression he had been under fire — of a sort . |