Example sentences of "[vb past] he [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sandy McGlashan — why had he been off work that Tuesday ? |
| 2 | She even thought up ways in which — had he been at home — he might have managed the rescue more easily and with far greater certainty . |
| 3 | Had he been in love with her before she had married ? |
| 4 | Had he been in Whitechapel , Charlie would have been happy to run up and down the market from five in the morning to seven at night and still box a few rounds at the club , drink a couple of pints of beer and carry out the same routine the next day without a second thought , but when at nine o'clock the sergeant-major gave them a ten-minute break for cocoa he collapsed on to the verge exhausted . |
| 5 | Had he been in children 's homes ? |
| 6 | Robert did not like to think of himself as a snob , but , had he been in charge of the Independent Wimbledon Day Islamic Boys ’ School , he would have expected a higher standard of civility from the cleaning staff . |