Example sentences of "[vb past] be [prep] his " in BNC.
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| 1 | The salesman I approached was in his early forties and begrudgingly admitted that he had a fair knowledge of the wordprocessor we use . |
| 2 | No , it would n't have surprised me if he 'd been at his easel while I was painting the town red ! |
| 3 | Of their evening together , of how forthcoming he 'd been with his information . |
| 4 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 5 | They were the only people who 'd been in his room except for his Dad last night . |
| 6 | He 'd been in his share of fistfights had Mr Fearon . |
| 7 | And if I 'd been in his skin , and seen the power in Dawn 's beak and feet , I do n't think I 'd have done anything either . |
| 8 | But he 'd been in his prime then , a match for any King Lud who 'd taken it into his weak head to break into the Dallam weaving sheds , in the dead of night , and start smashing his machines to bits . |
| 9 | He 'd been in his vigorous prime then , all right . |
| 10 | The Membership List revealed he 'd been in his present parish for six years , was unmarried , had written a book , The Railways of Norfolk , 1890 to 1940 , published by Jarrolds , and was , in addition to being Vicar of St Clements Bestwick , chaplain to the Sisters of St Sylvester , East Soken , near Diss . |
| 11 | She 'd been in his company for less than a minute , and already they were sparring . |
| 12 | John adored being with his grandchildren . |
| 13 | He enjoyed being with his old friends in Jerusalem . |
| 14 | He was , though , still unwilling to put up with people who he felt were beneath his intellectual level . |
| 15 | The moment came , and in walked Robin and Henrietta Tavistock ; his expression was one of sheer amazement , and when he saw his father the Duke of Bedford , whom he thought was at his chalet in Méribel , I saw tears of emotion flood his eyes for a moment . |
| 16 | Mr Palmer told the court that Mr Browning admitted being in his car at the time of the killing . |
| 17 | However , much one may respect Borg 's reputation and his unerring sportsmanship , I find it hard to share his optimism , especially as only 16 of the 54 points he won were from his winners . |
| 18 | The man who emerged was in his late fifties with short grey hair and round , wire-framed glasses . |
| 19 | He had filled his pockets with stones , but the drama of the landscape had been beyond his understanding . |
| 20 | A nagging little voice reminded her how reticent her father had been about his past , always changing the subject abruptly so that she never learnt a thing about him . |
| 21 | His position was now exactly what it had been during his exile in Rufus 's reign : he was without an income and reduced to dependence on the hospitality of Hugh of Lyons . |
| 22 | Since he had a lady so much more deserving than myself , I could have wished I had been of his sex and then there never would have been a more perfect friendship . |
| 23 | He stated that a man with an accent had been to his shop at about 1.30pm on 22 June . |
| 24 | He had been to his father 's lawyers , to his father 's banking partners and advisors ; to his stockbrokers at the Bourse ; to his accountants . |
| 25 | He reminisced how loyal he had been to his firm and how cruel he felt was his reward . |
| 26 | Everyone he had met in Fontanellato had been very kind , a good deal kinder than the people of Štanjel had been to his successor ; which was encouraging . |
| 27 | Her voice trailed away in despair as she considered just how poor a husband and father Campion Price had been to his family . |
| 28 | The plan had been for his son ( Frederick William ) Robin ( born 1936 ) , who succeeded as third earl and was himself the author of an excellent life of William Wilberforce [ q.v. ] , to complete it . |
| 29 | When he was caught driving in January , Ironside claimed that he had been on his way to look at the possibilities of a council house exchange . |
| 30 | She had been on his mind since the morning he had seen her from his horse ; frightened yet defiant , sparking with anger . |