Example sentences of "time [Wh adv] he had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He remembered other times when he had been in a plane at night with his wife and daughter . |
| 2 | At one time when he had been going out a lot with a Jewish couple he wrote to Hanns ‘ I have become a regular ghetto-yid ’ , going now to a stately home ‘ to ride their circumcised horses , now to a vile villa of Bellevue to hear real kosher recordings of Beethoven which none of them liked or understood , though they pretended they did , and now to a café which is inhabited solely by people who look like Schnozzle Durante . ’ |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |
| 5 | Mr Wolski could not help remembering a time when he had been a fugitive outside the fences of Sobibor in the scrubland of the Parczew Forest . |
| 6 | Nothing could shake the steadiness of such men as Hugh Waterton or John Norbury , who had been in his service from the time when he had been merely Henry of Bolingbroke , earl of Derby , and even that title borrowed by courtesy from his father . |