Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to make allowances , constantly reminding herself of the responsibility Nathan was carrying and how long he had been without sleep . |
| 2 | I asked him how long he had been with the Republicans and he said , ‘ Three weeks — I 'm a sales manager and I 've been given leave of absence by my company just to produce last night 's rally . ’ |
| 3 | " Can you estimate how long he 'd been in the water ? " |
| 4 | But perhaps he had been to a Harley Street specialist — it was easier to imagine the long holiday being recommended behind thick net curtains in one of those tall houses with several brass plates on the door . |
| 5 | I thought perhaps he 'd been to you and sort of were you interested and he he 'd come back . |
| 6 | So he 'd been to the doctors about few weeks ago and he 'd been repairing his shed , said there was water coming in and he went to he said oh you 've pulled a ligament or something he said , it 'll take weeks for it to clear up but anyhow he went back again about a fortnight ago . |
| 7 | Her husband , Stuart , 52 , said yesterday he had been in daily contact with her since she flew to Canada last month on the second pilgrimage to find her son . |
| 8 | THE polar explorer Sir Ranulph Fiennes said yesterday he had been within a week of death when he finally agreed to ‘ be sensible ’ and abandon his Antarctic expedition . |
| 9 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 10 | Wheat and barley he knew , and once he had been in a field of turnips . |
| 11 | An hour past he had been with his Ministers . |
| 12 | The Defence Secretary also said that now he had been in the post a year , he was reviewing defence spending priorities to see if they were correct . |
| 13 | So relaxed now ; yet only a short while ago he had been in the depths of despair . |
| 14 | Carlson could think of no reason why Bulbir Singh Mann should be the target of assassins ; presumably he had been in the way . |
| 15 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 16 | Maxim looked at the clutter of parts in front of him and realised how right he 'd been in saying soldiers hate to throw away guns , even cheap Spanish ones . |
| 17 | Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised . |
| 18 | ‘ A couple of hours earlier he had been at home watching television , eating his tea , just our Danny as he always was — a 14-year-old boy full of life , energy and cheek . ’ |
| 19 | But at least he had been with Grimma . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | How he had been with the mule packers on that campaign of the 3rd Cavalry 's , chasing down into Mexico after the bands of Chato and Chihuahua and got his new name in a meadow high in the Sierra Madre , two days west of the village of Tesorababi . |
| 22 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 23 | PC Andrew Ness , of Tayside Police , told how he had been on the road block looking for another vehicle when a white Cavalier had burst through . |
| 24 | He spent money that he had n't got and twice he 'd been in a duel . |
| 25 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 26 | There had been a time when he had been with the then desired Jenny in the back of a car on the moor at Goathland . |
| 27 | That was when he had been in the SAS . |
| 28 | He remembered other times when he had been in a plane at night with his wife and daughter . |
| 29 | " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months . |
| 30 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |