Example sentences of "he [vb past] be [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 2 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 3 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 4 | Every female role he made was for his wife , even though she was well past her prime ; Semenyaka 's youth was wasted stepping into others ' shoes . |
| 5 | The answer he got was in the line that Frank looked uninspired in training ( well as ‘ inspired ’ as Deano looks from time to time in the games i guess Deano most look — very — inspired in training ) . |
| 6 | He admitted being at the Savoy nightclub that evening but said he had gone home with a friend . |
| 7 | Dingwall Sheriff Court fined Richard Michalek of Duncanstown , Ross-shire , a hefty £4,000 after he admitted being in possession of 14 dead wild birds . |
| 8 | He admitted being in breach of bail and in breach of a probation order . |
| 9 | He was permitted to take his family with him , but the only intellectual companionship he found was among the Catholic missionaries : the local inhabitants remained strangers to him . |
| 10 | ‘ If the sums he mentioned are to be believed , it puts a most terrible responsibility on my shoulders . ’ |
| 11 | He 'd been off having fun too much . |
| 12 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | The year before he 'd been into the whole Absolute Beginners scene and everything around him had to date from the late ‘ fifties , early ‘ sixties . |
| 15 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He 'd been over the limit , they 'd said , when he 'd crashed his BMW , and there could have been no sympathy whatsoever for him from the relatives of the woman killed in the other car . |
| 18 | And there was a a a a lad who was about a couple of years older than me , he 'd be about twenty three , he 'd been through the War and er he was a real revolutionary , he was re and and he was very intelligent . |
| 19 | and erm I was feeling ill at the time and I , I wondered why because he 'd been through so much suffering , you know , it was a happy release . |
| 20 | he said he 'd been through recently , oh every time I 've been through Wolverhampton that ring road 's been awful the traffic like |
| 21 | It was an ignoble , unworthy thought , he knew , but he was — now , anyway — only human , and therefore prey to human weaknesses , whatever sort of superhuman he 'd been during the War . |
| 22 | Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book . |
| 23 | He 'd been on the binge of all time , wrecking cars , hitting her , almost breaking two of her fingers . |
| 24 | He was beginning to get a bit homesick since they 'd stopped travelling and he 'd been on his own . |
| 25 | So I suppose if he 'd been on the Road every day he 'd have won the Open ! |
| 26 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 27 | If he 'd been on the train and had walked with the other racegoers towards the station , Filmer could have seen him through the window … and just the sight of him had caused the tensing of the neck muscles … and if Filmer had n't yet paid him for whatever … then he would come back to the train … |
| 28 | And he 'd been on our committee for I think it was about about three years was that right ? |
| 29 | The notion of such international co-operation would have been unthinkable even at senior investigator level ; but here the arrangements had been made and he 'd been on a plane within a matter of hours . |
| 30 | ( Two summers ago , on holiday in Greece with a school pal he had since lost touch with , he 'd been on a small , crowded , ramshackle train heading out of Athens over a scrubby plain in blistering heat . |