Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 2 | He could n't believe what he 'd done , that he 'd been into Mrs Wright 's house , into her bedroom even , when she was out . |
| 3 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |
| 4 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 5 | He turned up at a party one night having just managed to get back from Italy where he 'd been supposed to be studying and it came out that he 'd been to Rome , too , and had actually met her father and knew their story — better than she did — and had sat at the feet of the Marchesa Giulia . |
| 6 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 7 | And he was telling , you know erm it was the er Christmas thing , he was t saying he 'd been to France on a cheap ticket had n't he ? |
| 8 | Did he tell you w he 'd been to Hill Hotel . |
| 9 | He 'd been to Wewelsburg on several occasions , had even inspected the castle 's plans at SD headquarters , so knew it well . |
| 10 | I found some brandy and it steadied him a bit … and then he told me he 'd been to Angy 's flat and found her dead . ’ |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 13 | Starting to feel more than a fraction disgruntled that he 'd been in Prague when she 'd called before — on the right day and the right time — Fabia strove hard to keep what she was feeling out of her look . |
| 14 | He wanted us to think he 'd been in Retford . |
| 15 | If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden . |
| 16 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 17 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 18 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 19 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 20 | But Dyson 's opinion of him , which had risen noticeably on hearing that he had been at King 's , had fallen back to zero again ; his having been at King 's was cancelled out by his having been right about his instructions to join Dyson 's department . |
| 21 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 22 | When my cousin , who was to be in the locality ( one did not ask why at that time , and it was only after we were both freed of our vows of secrecy more than thirty years later that he told me he had been at Bletchley Park itself ) suggested coming to visit me , Mrs Sugden had no doubt but that this was my ‘ gentleman friend ’ . |
| 23 | He had been at Cambridge just after the last war , had fought with the International Brigade in Spain and had joined the R.A.F. as an air-gunner in 194O . |
| 24 | He had been at Cambridge , where he got his Blue for rowing . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 27 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 28 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 29 | He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work . |
| 30 | He had been with Sandford since he was a boy and spoke adequate English . |