Example sentences of "[noun] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 4 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |
| 5 | He told me that during the nine months he had been at the farm he and the others had noticed that the landscape had changed . |
| 6 | There was something decidedly odd about the engineering master ; his manner was always friendly , but , in the six months he had been at the school , Robert had not exchanged more than a few words with the man . |
| 7 | The first column he wrote was about art and forgery , and he titled it ‘ Art and other scenes ’ . |
| 8 | Whilst in Russia he had been in contact with representatives of the Russian Bible Society , and through them had learned of the monitorial system of schoolteaching pioneered by Lancaster and Bell in Britain . |
| 9 | Ambiguous as to whether or not Singer drowned himself , it looks at an era — 1964 to 1979 — during which the spirit of rapacious capitalism he personified was at any rate submerged . |
| 10 | For days he 'd been in the blackest of moods , furious with her for wasting herself on a man old enough to be her father , and even more furious with himself for not having taken her forcefully after that Christmas evening when he 'd known her feelings were as inflamed as his own . |
| 11 | Over the few weeks he had been in Mandru 's house , Lucien had acknowledged Jeopardy 's beauty and talent , but had also despised him . |
| 12 | She smiled down at him and realized that in the few weeks he 'd been with her he had not only put on weight but had grown a few inches in height too . |
| 13 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 14 | He felt himself warm toward the sullenly controlled man as he never had in the three years he had been on the paper . |
| 15 | When the meter man came for the last time he spoke of my aunt , and of the many years he had been to the house , so that he felt himself to be almost an old friend . |
| 16 | Chief Superintendent McLean says that last summer the resources he allocated to the protection of the Ks were greater than those given to anything , other than really serious crimes such as murder , in the two years he had been in charge of Hounslow division . |
| 17 | For the last two years he had been in practice in Northampton , and he did not at that stage wish to endanger his prospects there by letting his application to Bedford be generally known ; if Whitbread gave his support however , Thackeray would ‘ make his pretensions public ’ . |
| 18 | David , for example , had this to say about the three years he had been in the group : |
| 19 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 20 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 21 | By mid-morning he had been through the day 's edition of the Herald Tribune . |
| 22 | Just before this meeting MacArthur told Gascoigne he had been in contact with Senator Robert A. Taft and , in a five-page letter , had urged on Taft the importance of concluding a peace treaty speedily . |
| 23 | Books dealing mainly with science and the occult lined the walls , bits of engineering projects littered the table , his ultra-feminine dresses hung in one corner and the printing press of the transsexual/transvestite magazine he edited was in the other corner . |
| 24 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 25 | The 28-year-old has made only 10 appearances all season , and the last Premier League game he started was against Oldham back on September 12 . |
| 26 | ‘ If the sums he mentioned are to be believed , it puts a most terrible responsibility on my shoulders . ’ |
| 27 | It was made up of friends , of people he enjoyed being with , and he did n't want to become like the other teams with their heavy commercial involvements . |
| 28 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 29 | He was sixty-four now , but as a young man he had been in the army and seen action on the North-West Frontier . |
| 30 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |