Example sentences of "[subord] he had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | She won one victory in January 1981 when a palpable ‘ wet ’ , Norman St John-Stevas , was removed as Leader of the House ( where he had been a conspicuous success ) , while younger men like Leon Brittan and Kenneth Baker were promoted , the latter having been one of Heath 's campaign managers in 1975 . |
| 2 | The most significant move in his cabinet reshuffle on April 21st was to shift Joe Clark from external affairs , where he had been nimble and sensible , to be the minister responsible for constitutional affairs — that is , in charge of saving Canadian unity . |
| 3 | I shared a compartment with a tanned young man , blond as only a Swede can be , in wire-rimmed glasses and a pony-tail , who was returning to Göteborg from Algeciras , where he had been visiting a girlfriend , as he put it . |
| 4 | St Fachtna , in the olden days , left his precious prayer book in the grass , where he had been sitting reading it . |
| 5 | We had met in South Africa ( where he had been born ) , had left for political reasons , and had decided to make our home in Edinburgh . |
| 6 | Thomson 's experiences abroad , where he had been confronted with every type of poverty and degradation , had nurtured his already strong humanitarian streak . |
| 7 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 8 | When Home succeeded Macmillan , he moved Edward Heath from the Foreign Office ( where he had been Home 's number two ) to the Board of Trade . |
| 9 | Hickson alleged that while in the police station where he had been taken by P.C. Torney on a charge of having stolen 10&shilling from the pocket of his clothes in a cubicle at the Corporation Swimming Baths , the constable gave him a violent blow to the eye , and followed this up by two blows to the body … he was subsequently acquitted on this charge . |
| 10 | Even as the answering hail of fire swept all around where he had been , he was wriggling away on his stomach into an alleyway . |
| 11 | Ever since he could think at all he had realised that the class which exploited the worker in every country would fight to the last ditch for the sake of keeping the worker where he was and where he had been all his life . |
| 12 | It was known where he had been buried . |
| 13 | He arrived in Split by Sea King helicopter from aircraft carrier HMS Ark Royal , stationed off the Croatian coast , where he had been welcomed by a 40-man Welsh male voice choir made up of crew members . |
| 14 | All round his dingy housing-association flat in Stoke Newington , close to Amhurst Road , where he had been arrested at the beginning of the 1970s , were the signs of the new affluence . |
| 15 | Where he had been a child , when the fox came at night around the barricaded chicken houses then the old bugger always scented the chicken house sides , left his stirik , boasted that he had been there . |
| 16 | George Harvey Goldsmith M.D. , was educated at Bedford Grammar School , after which he went to Cambridge and then St. George 's Hospital , where he had been house surgeon and house physician . |
| 17 | Then Corporal Auriega , a fat Spaniard who sweated all the time , arrived back from town where he had been drinking all evening with his friends . |
| 18 | Patsy turned to them , unmarked except for where he had been stained by his brother 's blood . |
| 19 | But he did not wait for a reply before throwing himself to one side as a sabre whistled down and buried itself deep in the brickwork of the window sill where he had been sitting . |
| 20 | The Goldsmiths summoned him to London , but did not refer to his local supporters , appointing him on 7th August because of his excellent testimonials from the Master and Fellows of Christ 's College , Cambridge , where he had been a student . |
| 21 | He had been educated at Westminster Abbey Choir School , where he had been senior chorister at the time of the Coronation of King George V , and at Westminster School , whence he proceeded to St. John 's College , Cambridge . |
| 22 | ‘ We hear you 're a very clever man , shepherd , ’ added Joseph Poorgrass from behind the maltster 's bed , where he had been hiding . |
| 23 | Where he had been standing had been a turning point for cars once upon a time — when there were still cars in the world — but this had never been a place for modern things . |
| 24 | The doctor turned away from the fire , where he had been warming his hands . |
| 25 | In 1889 , the year before the Leeds Congress , he was offered the living of St Katherine 's Church where he had been a very popular curate . |
| 26 | Cardiff looked at the blood on his hand , where he had been clutching his chest . |
| 27 | Other triangular trade centred on the East Indies , where he had been associated with the interloping of Sir William Courteen [ q.v. ] against the East India Company from the late 1630s . |
| 28 | Writing to the Countess of Rutland in 1670 from his ‘ uncouth cell ’ in the Fleet prison , where he had been committed for debt , Crowe was scathing about the quality of the tapestries produced by William , Earl of Craven [ q.v. ] , and his associates who had taken over from him at Mortlake in 1667 . |
| 29 | He would ask what the hell did it matter where he had been , now that he was here ? |
| 30 | He shivered , remembering a dream where he had been riding north into the mountains with a woman who was not his wife . |