Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [adv] [prep] his [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In so saying , Fortescue had all but admitted that Henry V had been ahead of his time . |
| 2 | He had been away from his wife and family for nearly two weeks now . |
| 3 | He had been so throughout his school life and through college , managing to only just scrape through by handing in work started the night before it was due in . |
| 4 | His presidency , in other words , might have ended less ingloriously if he had been more like his successor in the White House . |
| 5 | Slowly she began to come back to reality , and realise that she had been entirely at his mercy . |