Example sentences of "his [noun sg] [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sister had been to St Saviour 's . |
| 2 | All day long he insisted that they already knew who the fellow-Communists of his branch had been in the Forties and that he did not want to ‘ crawl through the mud for no purpose ’ . |
| 3 | Galliéni , who was senior to Joffre , had been offered the supreme command , a post he turned down on the grounds that all his experience had been as a colonial soldier and administrator . |
| 4 | The court found that all his experience had been in these areas ; he had always worked for the plaintiffs and therefore the clause rendered him unemployable over a very wide area for a significant time . |
| 5 | His hand was hard , the skin warm , the pressure firm , as forceful against her own palm as his mouth had been against hers . |
| 6 | His mind had been on the office . |
| 7 | As fast as he undid them I did them up again , so that when he got to my waist and sighed he recoiled with indignation and astonishment to find that his labour had been in vain . |
| 8 | But even in the 1820s some of his work had been on electricity and magnetism , which would now be thought of as physics ; and in the 1830s he moved decidedly in this direction . |
| 9 | Whereas Foucault was inclined to remark that in retrospect he considered that all his work had been about power , it seems almost equally possible that his analyses of power constitute a continuing meditation on the phantasm . |
| 10 | His security had been in a family that was to lose its roots , and in a sister who was to lose her life . |
| 11 | His war had been worth fighting , much as she regretted the admission . |
| 12 | Said his wife had been in need of a holiday and he had been unable to get away . |
| 13 | Mr Toghill has a degree in English Literature , and his career has been in PR and marketing , and latterly in careers work and the promotion of membership for the AAT . |
| 14 | His career has been in international brand companies — Procter & Gamble , The Rank Organisation and Revlon International . |
| 15 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 16 | She would go back to Sea House and tell Stephen that his father had been on a train at the time of his mother 's death . |
| 17 | His father had been to the Wesleyan Collegiate Institution at Taunton until the age of sixteen , when he had left and gone into the business . |
| 18 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed softly , and wondered if her mother and his father had been among them . |
| 19 | Often the furniture looked lost after he had left a room and because of this Endill soon learnt to tell where his father had been in the house . |
| 20 | Denis had had to reveal it when applying to join — they 'd have found out anyway that his father had been in the RIC . |
| 21 | He says that when he first learned that his father had been in prison he expected the crime to be something on a grand scale , something melodramatic , like murder , something novelistic , like ruining in bankruptcy thousands of trusting small investors , as the Town & County Bank had done in Cranford , or Mr. Frothingham in The Whirlpool or Ponderovo [ sic ] in Tono - Bungay . |
| 22 | The boy told us that his dog had been at the head of the pack from the start , biting the boar 's heels and almost bringing it down . |
| 23 | the burgeoning suspicion that his commitment has been in vain , must , as Anita Mason depicts , have been an appalling psychological torment . |
| 24 | Local opinion was outraged ; Price was brought to trial and would have been convicted by the jury if the judge had not insisted that his offence had been against morals and not against the law . |
| 25 | His grandmother had been like a mother to him for most of his childhood . |
| 26 | A substantial contingent of men from his abbey had been among Louis the Pious 's forces in Aquitaine since the previous autumn , and when they returned to Ferrières in July 840 , they brought first-hand news of Gerard 's appointment as commander of Charles 's garrison at Limoges . |
| 27 | His ship had been in Japan just after the surrender and he had enjoyed a couple of visits to the bath houses in Yokohama A part of the treatment there had included an exhilarating massage carried out by a young girl who , by standing on his inert naked body , and by using her body weight as a substitute for arm muscle , had given him an unforgettable massage with her bare feet . |
| 28 | And all the time his hand had been inside her bra . |
| 29 | His form 's been with you for ages . |
| 30 | Dr Mardell said the last distribution of aid in Srebrenica before his arrival had been on 12 December and had provided four kilos of flour per family — enough for about one week . |