Example sentences of "his [noun] [verb] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His sister had been to St Saviour 's . |
| 2 | Most of his meetings have been at Cadwell , a 150 mile round trip from his home . |
| 3 | His sons have been to every place and farm along the Tummel . |
| 4 | 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 ’ . |
| 5 | The dental surgery where his Mum worked was on the outskirts of Thirkett . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | His hand was hard , the skin warm , the pressure firm , as forceful against her own palm as his mouth had been against hers . |
| 9 | His mind had been on the office . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Even then he had a special devotion to subterranean tracks and as the train came to the Wellington tunnel ( he and his parents had been on holiday to Cornwall that summer ) he began letting out a series of long drawn-out hooting sounds . |
| 14 | Victory : The only valuables the Vampire and his minion have are on their persons ( see their profiles ) . |
| 15 | He desperately needed to talk to me , to have me as a confessor if not to obtain my active help , but could not see the way to come to terms with me ; his need to accept was in conflict with his wish to reject . |
| 16 | His security had been in a family that was to lose its roots , and in a sister who was to lose her life . |
| 17 | His war had been worth fighting , much as she regretted the admission . |
| 18 | Let us assume the player is unsure where to begin ; he knows only that his chord playing is below par and wishes to improve it . |
| 19 | Gqozo later claimed that his troops had been under attack and had acted in self-defence . |
| 20 | All his dealings had been with himself and that larger self of family which had been thrown together by marriage or accident : he had never been able to go out from his shell of self . |
| 21 | Said his wife had been in need of a holiday and he had been unable to get away . |
| 22 | If no organic being excepting man had possessed any mental power , or if his powers had been of a wholly different nature from those of the lower animals then we should never have been able to convince ourselves that our high faculties had been gradually developed . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | His career has been in international brand companies — Procter & Gamble , The Rank Organisation and Revlon International . |
| 25 | In almost the same moment Alexei recalled that his father had been at the same briefing . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | ‘ Yes , ’ she agreed softly , and wondered if her mother and his father had been among them . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | Denis had had to reveal it when applying to join — they 'd have found out anyway that his father had been in the RIC . |