Example sentences of "that he had [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This was the first time that he had been past the big covered back porch of her house , and everything was new and interesting . |
| 2 | He came to me He had a problem , he and I were good friends and he said that erm that this one girl s erm Michelle , was his favourite wife and that he had been with her since erm she was twelve . |
| 3 | The man said that he had been with a woman . |
| 4 | Mr Aichi had had to withdraw his candidature for the governorship of Miyagi prefecture when it was revealed that he had been on the take . |
| 5 | When he was caught driving in January , Ironside claimed that he had been on his way to look at the possibilities of a council house exchange . |
| 6 | He was convinced that he had been on target . |
| 7 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 8 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 9 | He fervently denied that he had been at the scene of the murders or had been in any way involved . |
| 10 | There were found footprint evidences that young Brown had crossed and recrossed Hunder Beck , that he had been at the top of the high moor , and he was traced half way back , with probably thirty-six sheep which were recovered on Sunday . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | ( He is certainly the first pope for whom we have direct evidence that he had been at a centre of learning . ) |
| 13 | His clothes suggested that he had been at a party and was anxious to get back to it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | She added that he had later asked her to tell detectives that he had been at home all Saturday night . |
| 16 | Moved by her obvious concern , he had written to explain that he had been through a bad time , but was better now . |
| 17 | It was said in his defence that he had been through a tough war as an Infantry NCO and the award of the Military Medal was proof of his bravery . |
| 18 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 19 | It was obvious that he had been under house arrest at some point in his life . ’ |
| 20 | It did not disturb him that he had been under observation ; he was not accustomed to deprecate what he was , or to undervalue it . |
| 21 | And she knew that he had been to The Bar over thirty times in seven weeks now . |
| 22 | ‘ I did n't know you were religious , Balvinder , ’ surprised by his admission that he had been to the gurdwara . |
| 23 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 24 | Barth himself later said that he had been like a man who , tripping in the darkness of the church tower , had accidentally caught hold of the bell-rope to steady himself and alarmed the whole countryside . |
| 25 | Every time that he had been inside the Citadel he went home as soon as his day 's work was finished and scrubbed his body from toe to scalp . |
| 26 | Mr Escobar confirmed reports that he had been in contact with the government for over 12 months prior to the crackdown , ordered after the drug-related slayings of a presidential candidate and two other top officials . |
| 27 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 28 | They had no reason to suppose that he had been in pursuit of them , the western ride led in the general direction of the outlaws ' Great Camp and they presumed that was where he was going . |
| 29 | He said that he had been in a corner of the bar talking to the landlord and friends during the time that the incident took place . |
| 30 | Consequently he placed advertisements in Russian newspapers , stating that he had been in charge of the production and clarification of Veuve Clicquot wines for a number of years where he succeeded in achieving perfect limpidity . |