Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] he " in BNC.
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| 1 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 2 | He 'd been with him years . |
| 3 | ‘ The — er — Palmer & Pearson job , ’ she interrupted , only then realising that they had barely touched on work the whole time she 'd been with him . |
| 4 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 5 | All the phone calls they received were for him , and Gina never had any mail . |
| 6 | Luke Calder was used to getting what he wanted from life , and the last thing she needed was for him to turn his sights on to her , even though it might only be to put her back in her place ! |
| 7 | Having had a gruesome storm-tossed journey , his first act on landing was to fulfil his vow to travel barefoot to the nearest shrine in thanksgiving for his delivery ; the rheumatism which resulted was with him for the rest of his life — as was the sourness with which he regarded Scotland . |
| 8 | But she claimed she liked being with him , she liked making him happy , and she liked doing what he did . |
| 9 | A shadow crossed his face ; evidently , thought Karelius , what there had been between him and Louise Müller was not yet dead , and perhaps never would be . |
| 10 | He was regarded as a ‘ big-head ’ , he played truant , got into trouble for telling a lie , and was lectured by the headmaster in front of the whole school because of the complaints there had been about him . |
| 11 | Although she was reasonably sure that Harry was still in love with her , she was concerned at all the talk there had been about him marrying the American girl . |
| 12 | Now he was sharp and alert and as curt and direct as Sandison had been to him the day before . |
| 13 | To Tom Poole that day , Coleridge wrote a farewell letter , setting down his sense of all that Poole had been to him since the beginning of their friendship more than four years earlier : |
| 14 | He had been as anonymous to Aldhelm as Aldhelm had been to him . |
| 15 | He stressed first how important it had been to him to get to know Wagner 's philosophy of music and that his own " Dionysiac Philosophy " reflected that debt . |
| 16 | He crossed to the library and entered , assailed at once by warm memories of the man who had been to him the nearest thing to a father . |
| 17 | The England that Pound mourns the loss of is , as it had been for him from the first , an integral province of western Europe , sharing a common culture with France and always reaching out , through France , to the shores of the Mediterranean . |
| 18 | He thought back to how it had been for him last winter . |
| 19 | I 'm sure it was , Patrick grinned as he walked down the corridor and climbed the half-dozen steps from the servants ' quarters up to the hall ; he had seen the look on the butler 's face , and knew how uncomfortable it had been for him . |
| 20 | Blanche thought she detected a flicker of self-satisfaction , as though she had confirmed what had been for him until then just a suspicion . |
| 21 | He had seen how entirely wrong it had been for him to have assumed that Beatrice Throgmorton would look twice at him . |
| 22 | He paused and gave her an intense look that revealed a little of how it had been for him . |
| 23 | Prized most of all was the collection of classical poetry — from John Donne to Robert Browning — which enhanced the Hebraic and Yiddish verse that had been with him from the first . |
| 24 | Ah , said Mr Healey , Enoch had been with him at that seminar in Florence he 'd mentioned . |
| 25 | In Tolkien , by huge contrast , he met a man whose style had been with him from the beginning . |
| 26 | He had a house in Gloucestershire and another at Kensington Palace , and staff who had been with him for years , accustomed to his simple and masculine lifestyle and accustomed to ruling it . |
| 27 | It had been with him a long time , long before McLuhanism had arrived to make a lot of people cry into their beer at El Vino 's and go haring after every tin-pot producer in the business . |
| 28 | The man he had just killed had been with him the night he died . |
| 29 | When Tony 's father was interviewed he said he felt angry with Tony for having taken the tablets , especially as his girl friend , Pat , had been with him when he found Tony unconscious . |
| 30 | Atkins and the other man who had been with him during the doorstep confrontation on Boxing Night were waiting . |