Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [verb] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 2 | He 'd been looking for that for ages . |
| 3 | He 'd been talking to these erm Greek blokes and they invited him into this bar for erm |
| 4 | And he 'd been rubbing for that long they 'd gone that colour . |
| 5 | He came in and he 'd been playing with this bloody lighter |
| 6 | This was ‘ Ace 's wave ’ , the one he 'd been waiting for all his life . |
| 7 | Five minutes later he came in trying to tell tell us jokes and each time he 'd been paddling through this brake fluid and the carpet is just you know , brains |
| 8 | Dauntless cursed the ballot through which he had been burdened with this particular region to patrol . |
| 9 | I think he had been listening to some people in the dale who had missed out on the shoot and the money that went with it , and were critical , or pretended to be critical , of people who worked for Sir Emmanuel and the other toffs — maybe a bit left wing , although Stanley was n't a person who took any interest in politics . |
| 10 | But the Chancellor did show he had been listening to some of industry 's gripes . |
| 11 | His face was still but Sheldukher could see that he had been troubled by these words . |
| 12 | He had been absorbed in some fashion … and then Returned . |
| 13 | In fact these lectures offered an elegant and lucid exposition of educational theories and assumptions ( he had been exercised by this topic since the early forties ) and although he failed to arrive at any conclusions he suggested that none could in any case be reached . |
| 14 | He had been speaking for some five minutes or more with force and conviction , carried away by the things which concerned him greatly . |
| 15 | Film shown on Algerian television that same evening recorded that he had been speaking for some minutes . |
| 16 | As it happened , he had been shot through both legs a few months before . |
| 17 | Jagatan raised himself on one elbow , and Burun guessed that he had been drinking for most of the afternoon . |
| 18 | Alexei had expected to be seated beside Tulagai and Targoutai , the half-brothers of Nogai and T'zin , but instead he had been led to this place beside Siban . |
| 19 | Every kind of reason for it went through her mind : the doctor had given him six months to live , his family was moving away from the area , he had been transferred to another school . |
| 20 | He had been observed for some time in the recovery unit as his central venous pressure and blood pressure were low . |
| 21 | By now he had had confirmation of the news he had been expecting for some time . |
| 22 | ‘ Our information is that Mr Evans left the Club in order to go and see what was delaying the arrival of his wife whom he had been expecting for some time . ’ |
| 23 | He had been lost to all sense of preservation , both for himself and for Grainne . |
| 24 | The most recent outstanding event in Jim 's distinguished career was the publication of his definitive catalogue of the collections of Christ Church , Oxford , on which he had been engaged for several years , coinciding with the opening of the new galleries to contain them . |
| 25 | She knew he was waiting for her to agree , and it was desperation , pure and simple , she thought , that made her remember the elegant blonde he had been dining with that particular night . |
| 26 | It would have been more usual to have asked her with careful casualness to wait behind after the meeting but what he had to say was private and he had been trying for some weeks now to cut down the number of times when they were known to be alone together . |
| 27 | A 13 year old boy from Kent described as ‘ borderline autistic ’ reported to his mother that he had been buggered by another pupil at his residential school . |
| 28 | These next few pages are the reactions of one who went to the Centre , came away evangelical and kept saying to himself , ‘ All shipshape and Bristol fashion ’ , only to fall from the crest into the deepest trough , but thankfully to climb up again to a sensible plateau and finally discover that he had been fortified in more ways than he had expected . |
| 29 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 30 | as if he had been struck by some unseen force into stillness , he stopped , his right arm still embracing an imaginary figure , his left arm extended . |