Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 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 | Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised . |
| 4 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 5 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 6 | After he 'd been at Mandru for a while , Lucien learned that Mandru had refused to have any more boys from Por Tanssie after his last purchase from that academy had committed suicide . |
| 7 | He 'd been at school with Emilio Estevez and Charlie Sheen . |
| 8 | He said he 'd been at Parkhead recently ( his son is in the reserves ) and Billy Bremner had been there . |
| 9 | Did he tell you that he 'd been at flat I mean years before or near the date of this or what ? |
| 10 | Rory knew because he 'd been with mum once when they 'd met Lachy and a woman in the street in Lochgilphead . |
| 11 | ‘ A few days later he told me that he 'd been to Cintra 's with her . |
| 12 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 15 | How awful he 'd been to Laura , how unforgivable . |
| 16 | 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 ? |
| 17 | Did he tell you w he 'd been to Hill Hotel . |
| 18 | He 'd been to Wewelsburg on several occasions , had even inspected the castle 's plans at SD headquarters , so knew it well . |
| 19 | ‘ Sealed envelope with Mme Wyatt , ’ he replied , laying an uncharacteristic finger against his nose as if this was what he 'd been to spy-school for . |
| 20 | 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 . ’ |
| 21 | He 'd been in love with Arianna , you could hear it in his voice . |
| 22 | why do you Jonathan , St Steven said oh he 'd been in detention . |
| 23 | And and lots of churches that he was telling us that he 'd been in contact with . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | He must have been about my age , too , because he 'd been in Nagasaki when the bomb went on . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | He wanted us to think he 'd been in Retford . |
| 28 | 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 . |
| 29 | If he 'd been in Eden , he would have probably left apple cores strewn all around the garden . |
| 30 | They admit he 'd been in trouble before but say he did n't deserve to die this way . |