Example sentences of "where he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Holding Management Inc. in the USA where he had been since 1983 . |
| 7 | Creggan stayed where he had been in the morning , firm and sure . |
| 8 | From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger . |
| 9 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And he did n't have to explain where he 'd been to a wife who has different ideas of a swinging time . |
| 12 | She used to wonder where he 'd been in the meantime , but not any more . |