Example sentences of "[Wh adv] he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I remember at the time Wilko saying how he though Kerslake was an excellent buy , and how he 'd been after him for a long time . |
| 2 | How he had been with the mule packers on that campaign of the 3rd Cavalry 's , chasing down into Mexico after the bands of Chato and Chihuahua and got his new name in a meadow high in the Sierra Madre , two days west of the village of Tesorababi . |
| 3 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 4 | PC Andrew Ness , of Tayside Police , told how he had been on the road block looking for another vehicle when a white Cavalier had burst through . |
| 5 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 6 | There had been a time when he had been with the then desired Jenny in the back of a car on the moor at Goathland . |
| 7 | That was when he had been in the SAS . |
| 8 | He remembered other times when he had been in a plane at night with his wife and daughter . |
| 9 | " I made that excuse for him last year when he 'd been with us six months . |
| 10 | Naylor Massingham had not been the easiest of people to deal with when he 'd been in her home ; how would she fare now that she was , so to speak , on his territory ? |
| 11 | His particular predilections when he started were for the young artists of his won age who were beginning to reject the immediate traditions of their predecessors and experiment with new formulas of expression and technique in the 1940s and 1950s . |
| 12 | Big John McCormick had had a distinguished career in Scotland , where he had been on the verge of international honours while playing with now defunct Third Lanark and at Aberdeen , but it was , amazingly , as a makeweight that he came south to Crystal Palace . |
| 13 | In the lounge , Willis and Hemmings were listening to George 's account of where he had been on the nights of the murders and the disappearance . |
| 14 | The CEDA leader , José María Gil Robles , had been politically discredited by his electoral defeat of February 1936 and was now stranded in Biarritz , where he had been on holiday when the rising occurred . |
| 15 | He collected their drinks and turned from the bar where he had been at the centre of a laughing group of men who frequently glanced at her curiously . |
| 16 | I happened to see Sir John Woods [ Permanent Secretary to the Board of Trade ] tonight and he told me that Sir Stafford Cripps had been reading the minutes of Cabinet committees during his absence [ in India , where he had been for nearly four months trying to reach a settlement which would lead to independence ] and had been depressed by the amount of time and energy taken up in the Ministerial Committees with the discussion of quite minor matters which individual Ministers ought to settle in their discretion . |
| 17 | Holding Management Inc. in the USA where he had been since 1983 . |
| 18 | Creggan stayed where he had been in the morning , firm and sure . |
| 19 | From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger . |
| 20 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 21 | Erm the other thing that , that I could n't quite hear but I thought when you were asking him about where he 'd been with the navy , I thought he said to the Far East unfortunately . |
| 22 | And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time . |
| 23 | She used to wonder where he 'd been in the meantime , but not any more . |
| 24 | He liked people who had a family , which was why he enjoyed being with Gordon Jackson so much . |
| 25 | So that was why he 'd been in the club so often over the past few weeks — he 'd been checking out the lie of the land , assessing the place as a possible investment . |
| 26 | He was already a respected physician in his field , and his opinion was often called for in public hospitals and institutions , which was why he had been to the Foundling Hospital today . |