Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.

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1 At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months .
2 He had evidently been through all this before .
3 He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups .
4 Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember .
5 One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight .
6 Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs .
7 Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one .
8 He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right .
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