Example sentences of "[verb] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he underlined sharply too , how discouraged and disappointed he had been at the inability of his own Department of Agriculture and the Department of Economic Development to sort out their roles in the scheme of things . |
| 2 | It seemed he had been behind the same car for hours now — a Jaguar whose iridescent blue reminded Dexter of oil shimmering on the surface of a puddle . |
| 3 | And he 'd he 'd been on the dole er I think two years , and he 's just started up a a building site . |
| 4 | Endill learnt he had been in the army but was told to leave after forgetting who he was fighting for . |
| 5 | One did not have to attend school meals with the boys over the week-end if one was off duty ; and the only master who might have noticed I had been away was Méli himself , but as it happened he 'd been in Athens . |
| 6 | McLeish , warmed by the fact that she had taken the trouble to find out a bit about him , confirmed he had been at Reading University and had worked as a young sergeant in the Flying Squad . |
| 7 | The watchmaker confirmed he 'd been with him at two . |
| 8 | Pike is n't a big guy , but he did this like he had been in secret weight-training . |
| 9 | The judge said that Alan Murray claimed he had been in the welfare section of the UVF but he said : ‘ Membership of any proscribed organisation is a most serious matter . ’ |
| 10 | If he did n't understand something , he was reluctant to stand up and ask , instead he 'd worry it out himself , sometimes I reckoned he 'd been at it all night . |
| 11 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
| 12 | On board was a Maltese deck passenger who boasted he had been in nine different prisons in England ; after we had sailed a friend of his was discovered stowed away in the chain locker . |
| 13 | Connolly denied the charges but the court heard that swabs taken from his hands indicated he had been in contact with explosives and that he was found in possession of a key to the front door of the second house . |
| 14 | He tried to deny he 'd been to the village at first , but when I told him I 'd watched his every move he said he 'd gone for toothpaste and avoided our constables because he did n't think they 'd allow him to go out . ’ |
| 15 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 16 | For upset stomach read hangover , she thought , knowing he 'd been to an eighteenth birthday celebration for one of his friends the night before . |
| 17 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 18 | , see I got very pally with old , , we use to play snooker together that 's how I first met him and then we went there , and I never knew he 'd been in the cos I transferred to the R E's you see . |
| 19 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 20 | One anonymous caller told police he thought he had been in prison with the man during the 1960s and another believed he may have worked with the kidnapper two years ago . |
| 21 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 22 | Toby Farrar 's wife would think he had been in the wars . |
| 23 | I do n't think he 'd been for about six month . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | If he had denied it , and we later proved he had been on the moat , then it would have been a different matter . ’ |
| 26 | He wanted us to think he 'd been in Retford . |
| 27 | They admit he 'd been in trouble before but say he did n't deserve to die this way . |
| 28 | ‘ Doone phoned me yesterday to say he 'd been to the boatyard and taken away some objects for which he would give me a receipt . ’ |
| 29 | The last time 29 year-old Simon Wadland 's family heard from him was a week ago , when he called to say he 'd been in an accident outside a Banbury Bank and was going to the local hospital . |
| 30 | Although no evidence had been found that Gnassingbe had been present during the attack , the report said he had been at the scene of the attack " immediately beforehand " . |