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 | ’ 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He was no less prompt here than he had been in Wales . |
| 8 | 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 . |