Example sentences of "he had [be] [prep] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 2 | Phil Lowe was as dangerous here as he had been at Wembley . |
| 3 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 4 | Before that he had been at Lewis School , Pengam , when Neil Kinnock was house prefect . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 7 | 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 ’ . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | He had been at Cambridge , where he got his Blue for rowing . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | And a nasty place it was : jammed with junk Victorian furnishings and attitudes , squirearchical , male , fascistic ( Waugh was as keen on the Croatian Ustashe as he had been on Franco ) , anti-Jewish , bitter against the ‘ common man ’ , devoted to cranky equations between social hierarchy and linguistic purity . |
| 12 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 13 | He has not been helped by this shyness ( he had been with Essex for three years when Keith Fletcher asked if anyone had heard the young Gooch speak ) and it has led to misrepresentation . |
| 14 | He had been with UNACO now for three years and although he still suffered from bouts of homesickness he never allowed those feelings to interfere with his work . |
| 15 | He had been with Sandford since he was a boy and spoke adequate English . |
| 16 | I found this strange as apart from 3 years at Leeds , he had been with Sheffield United for 5 years . |
| 17 | He had been with Liddie through the various pre-natal classes , lying on the floor with her and learning the breathing exercises . |
| 18 | I thought she was a vexing girl , and judged that Byron thought the same ; but he was a lot more patient with her than he had been with Polidori . |
| 19 | For three years he had been with Jesus and heard his teaching — that he was bound to suffer , to die and to be raised from the dead . |
| 20 | He had been with Gene Amdahl 's Andor America Inc . |
| 21 | In June 1939 , Mr. Sinclair was appointed Chief Engineer ( Trams & Trolleybuses ) on the retirement of Mr. Mason and J. H. Parker became Chief Electrical Engineer ; he had been with Croydon Corporation in 1915 . |
| 22 | Edward Carrington much preferred his new companion , taken though he had been with Suzanne 's tired , tired eyes . |
| 23 | She could never understand what he did with it , where it went — he had not had time for … that other life of his , he had been with Bert , with Jack ! |
| 24 | But at least he had been with Grimma . |
| 25 | Previously he had been with Intel Corp and Burroughs . |
| 26 | He had been with Reuters for 21 years in 10 different posts and was looking for ‘ something different to do ’ . |
| 27 | He had been to Aberdeen and joined the Gordon Highlanders . |
| 28 | He had been to Sandhurst and served in a cavalry regiment before going to Kenya to farm . |
| 29 | He had been to Sweden in 1911 and Norway in 1913 , experiences which encouraged him in the use of a looser technique and a thicker impasto . |
| 30 | He had been to Buckingham Palace for a Privy Council , and he was able to inform Asquith that the King still hoped for a solution without a change of Prime Minister . |