Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] in [noun] " 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 'd been in love with Arianna , you could hear it in his voice . |
| 3 | why do you Jonathan , St Steven said oh he 'd been in detention . |
| 4 | And and lots of churches that he was telling us that he 'd been in contact with . |
| 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 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He wanted us to think he 'd been in Retford . |
| 9 | It was an awful place : dreary , badly furnished and he was n't as clean as he 'd been in hospital — food all down his clothes and he had n't shaved , he really looked unkempt . |
| 10 | If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden . |
| 11 | They admit he 'd been in trouble before but say he did n't deserve to die this way . |
| 12 | He 'd been in custody there for nearly thirty six hours altogether . |
| 13 | He 'd been in custody since early February accused of attempted robbery . |
| 14 | ‘ Did she tell you what he 'd been in prison for ? ’ |
| 15 | Er , I 'd been told er that he 'd been in prison with Mr er I believe it was in nineteen eighty six and I 'd also been told that in the past er and er had planned armed robberies together . |
| 16 | McLeish himself , though admiring , had been unaffected ; he had been in love for over a year with a young woman only a little older , and even cleverer , than Sergeant Crane . |
| 17 | From the very start , he had been in love with her , following her act around the clubs . |
| 18 | She pushed herself back against the wall to avoid touching a man but as Owen pressed past her he was as conscious of her roundnesses and softnesses as if he had been in bed beside her . |
| 19 | He had been in scenes like this with his teenage daughters , and he kept thinking : ‘ I must stay cool . ’ |
| 20 | He had been in correspondence with Ho , and now determined to make a personal visit to Hanoi to search for peace . |
| 21 | Even as heir-apparent , he had been in correspondence with Louis XVI of France concerning his plans for reorganising the army , and the overthrow of the French monarchy in the year of his accession , 1789 , did not diminish his enthusiasm for learning from the west . |
| 22 | There was no hurrying them , that 's what he had learned since he had been in Baghdad . |
| 23 | Burn 's nephew , MacVicar Anderson , ensured that Burn was as secretive about his methods of house planning in death as he had been in life . |
| 24 | When he had been in work he had eaten at 6 o'clock when he got home , but now they ate much later than they had ever done . |
| 25 | He had been in Scotland with Kanga , so they said . |
| 26 | I knew him because he had been in Fontanellato for some months , and after wishing him buon giorno and so forth I tried to find out what his duties were and what was likely to happen to the prisoner . |
| 27 | He had been in Rhodes , and indeed his ship had transported home the body of the Portuguese whom Nicholas had said he had n't had murdered . |
| 28 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 29 | It was ten years since he had been in Europe . |
| 30 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |