Example sentences of "he had be [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been through school and university , he had travelled the world , he had completed five years in the armed forces , he had flown fighter planes and helicopters — and for nine months had had command of a mine hunter in the North Sea . |
| 2 | He had been through hell in the course of duty ; he had made sacrifices that would be asked of no other human being . |
| 3 | He had been through college , and yet , he reflected , he was still ignorant of the continent to the north . |
| 4 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 5 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 6 | ‘ A couple of hours earlier he had been at home watching television , eating his tea , just our Danny as he always was — a 14-year-old boy full of life , energy and cheek . ’ |
| 7 | Livingstone said he had been at home at the time of the trouble while Hardy said he watched the disturbance , although he did not throw anything . |
| 8 | His mother Diane and girlfriend Donna Williams said he had been at home with them . |
| 9 | She added that he had later asked her to tell detectives that he had been at home all Saturday night . |
| 10 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 11 | He had been at sea on the Chilean coast most of his life , running cargoes between the isolated ports of the southern waterways , a marvellous-looking old man , big gnarled hands warped with rheumatism and a long wrinkled face , little lines running out from his eyes , which were slitted as though he were permanently peering out into fog . |
| 12 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 13 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 14 | He had been at school almost six months , the most miserable time of his entire life . |
| 15 | He admitted modestly that it was a long time since he had been at school , but one phrase he had understood was ‘ Vive la link box ! ’ . |
| 16 | He had been at School for over 21 years , teaching general subjects . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 19 | 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 ’ . |
| 20 | There had only ever been one with whom he had been at ease . |
| 21 | No I did visit Lawrence in prison after he was recaptured er and spoke to him about various things , including this er this incident and he did confirm that he had been at flat er for a couple of days er befo before the actual search . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had been at Cambridge , where he got his Blue for rowing . |
| 24 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |
| 25 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | On the last Monaghan Day that McQuaid came to the house Moran was on edge as he waited for him as he had been on edge every Monaghan Day , the only day in the year that McQuaid came to Great Meadow . |
| 29 | He had been on trial before . |
| 30 | He had been on board the Santa Maria some two hours or more working out with the Argentine naval lieutenant and the tug 's engineers just what was required to get the tow safely down the short cut into the Beagle Channel and thence to Ushuaia . |