Example sentences of "[subord] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Where he had been to school , what kind of degree he had got at university . |
| 2 | Capt. Eliecer Gaitán , the security chief under Gen. Manuel Antonio Noriega , was reported to have escaped on Sept. 16 from the apostolic nunciature in Panamá City , where he had been in refuge since Dec. 23 following the US invasion . |
| 3 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 4 | In his resignation speech , Gorbachev asserted that although he had been in favour of " the independence and self-determination of peoples and the sovereignty of republics " , he had also believed in " preserving the union state and the country 's integrity " . |
| 5 | Alexander Dubcek was re-elected chairman , although he had been in a coma since mid-September following a serious car accident . |
| 6 | The truth of it was that he was even less certain of her now than he 'd been at the beginning ; how she thought , the way she might react as the world around her changed . |
| 7 | ‘ Now he 's happier , I think , than he 'd been for a long time . |
| 8 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 9 | I thought she was a vexing girl , and judged that Byron thought the same ; but he was a lot more patient with her than he had been with Polidori . |
| 10 | No doubt his physical closeness did n't help her to think clearly because he was more breathtakingly sexy than he had been as a young man . |
| 11 | John was not universally popular with his new colleagues any more than he had been at the Wells ; his ambition aroused suspicion , scorn , envy or fear in some , and his sense of fun ( including a rather observant line in mimicry ) left barbs in some of its victims . |
| 12 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 13 | He was happier than he had been during the seven bad years between 1976 and 1982 , still self-assured but now far more reasonable . |
| 14 | He was obviously even more angry with her than he had been during the contretemps with Terry . |
| 15 | Leslie was happier than he had been since joining the army . |
| 16 | He was rude to officials and contemptuous of backbenchers less successful in their careers than he had been since becoming MP for Putney in 1979 . |
| 17 | The car heater kept him warmer than he had been since leaving Celia 's flat . |
| 18 | In fact , if anything he was even more remote and distant now than he had been before their weekend , as if he had n't meant to let her get so close and was frantically clawing back space . |
| 19 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 20 | In no time at all , he was faster than he had been in practice , something I have never seen since in a race by a leading driver . |
| 21 | He was no less prompt here than he had been in Wales . |
| 22 | Although in good spirits , Frank was even more withdrawn than he had been in the Pit . |
| 23 | He was more casually dressed than he had been in London . |
| 24 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
| 25 | This is not to say that James II ( or VII as he was in his northern Kingdom ) was any more popular in Scotland at the time of the Revolution than he had been in England . |
| 26 | Once he had been to the forbidden place — for him , England — and once he had succeeded in returning , he would have been taken by a tide , a powerful current drawing him back to the heartwoods . |
| 27 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 28 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 29 | The driver stopped to complain but was told it was his own fault — if he had been on time the ball would have missed . |
| 30 | If he had been on his own he would have gone straight up but he was more used to walking and climbing , no doubt , than these policemen . |