Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 2 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 3 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
| 4 | Dominic was dead , and he had been in my bedroom barely half an hour before he was killed . |
| 5 | Others would emerge from the ruin of the body itself , and he had been in constant contact with Ian Macdonald , who was still at work in Oxford . |
| 6 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 7 | His name was Roberto Coloni and he had been in hospital following a bad fall in which he had broken his shoulder blade , forearm and two ribs , as well as suffering bad concussion , which had affected his hearing . |
| 8 | To begin with , only the coincidence of the deaths of father and son within four days of each other ; beyond that his notion of a connection had been no more than a hunch , and he had been in the business too long to back his hunches far ahead of evidence . |
| 9 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 10 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
| 11 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 12 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 13 | And this man he was a regular dustbin , dustbin man and he 'd been at it all his life and he used to play cards with us and his family , his sons , and , and as many else as got any money to play pontoon or brag . |
| 14 | Leek out , had this heart trouble , and he 'd been in the Signals about oh ten year , he , he was on for twelve engagement and he nearly completed it when he had this heart trouble . |
| 15 | He makes me laugh though , I mean , as soon as I came downstairs and he 'd been in the lounge |
| 16 | Nobody was quite sure how many degrees he had started and not finished , not even Boris , but he had been at the place so long he could remember when they used to spell it Freshmen 's Fair . |
| 17 | But he had been on the Winchester K — not quite the same thing , of course . |
| 18 | According to Mr Carson , the professor had taken his degree at Oxford , but he had been in America for several years now . |
| 19 | He was n't at all old , but he had been in poetry long enough to take these things coolly . |
| 20 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | Then the , the Assistant Secretary for Education was erm a very interesting chap erm he was a Mr A O D and erm he was , he had erm an elementary school background , he had n't a degree or any qualification but he 'd been in so long that er he 'd worked his way up to erm , s erm to Assistant Secretary for Education and he was a jolly chap and erm and he produced a , a dictionary of erm , of the Suffolk dialect which has became quite erm , quite a classic work really |