Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] [be] [adj] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | He felt light-headed , as if he had been awake for days on end . |
| 2 | Even her father 's death a month ago had n't really affected her , because he had been ill for such a long time that nobody could be sorry that the end had come . |
| 3 | ‘ Because he 's been dead for over two hundred years . ’ |
| 4 | One reason for this was , of course , that since he had been dead for three months his eyes were in any case not in the best of condition . |
| 5 | He wondered whether he 'd been asleep for a while , or just deep in thought . |
| 6 | He had returned earlier in the day and Maeve was as ecstatic to see him as he had been hungry for her . |