Example sentences of "[adv] [subord] he [verb] been in " in BNC.
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1 | One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships . |
2 | His clothes were in more of a mess but just because he had been in the city longer . |
3 | It 's just since he 's been in the flats . |
4 | Behind this , almost certainly , lay the new economic pressures of an expanding population which were leaving the agricultural worker worse off than he had been in the years of land surplus . |
5 | ’ A stuffy set-up like this needs someone like me to redress the balance , ’ he would claim , usually after he had been in trouble for some misdemeanour or other . |
6 | Not a day went by but she saw Anthony 's face , and superimposed on it the face of Stavros , smirking slightly as he had been in the cemetery . |
7 | But he missed out because he had been in Copenhagen trying for a place in the Olympic team . |
8 | And Coleby was as hampered now as he had been in Emor by his lack of imagination : get him away from a straightforward discussion of bricks , mortar and money , and the man was lost ; give him a load of crap about the artistic temperament , and his sense of smell deserted him . |
9 | He was no less prompt here than he had been in Wales . |
10 | He had had a spell about two years previously when he had been in a wheel-chair for a few weeks , but had managed to get himself out of it and stagger around with two tripods . |