Example sentences of "[vb past] 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 | 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 . ’ |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 13 | , 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 . |
| 14 | For a moment he thought he had been in a terrible accident . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | ‘ Well , I just thought he 'd been at the whisky even more than usual , and ignored him . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | If he had denied it , and we later proved he had been on the moat , then it would have been a different matter . ’ |
| 19 | 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 " . |
| 20 | Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything . |
| 21 | His mother Diane and girlfriend Donna Williams said he had been at home with them . |
| 22 | Mr Murphy was released yesterday after statements were produced in court from witnesses who said he had been at an Alcoholics Anonymous meeting in Uxbridge , west London , at the time of the bombing . |
| 23 | He said he had been to a beauty contest where the audience were mostly farmers . |
| 24 | Roderick Hunt , defending Brooklyn , said he had been in custody for five weeks . |
| 25 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |
| 26 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 27 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |
| 28 | Said he 'd been to a party . |
| 29 | He said he 'd been to the pub and had 2 pints and that someone else was driving . |
| 30 | The proceedings were watched by Michael Crook , principal Adult Education Organiser for Norfolk , along with other AE officers , Peter Softly of Norwich Sports Council , mentioned particularly how impressed he had been by the day . |