Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They 've got a Hennessy , but according to his secretary he has n't been away from his desk for a week . |
| 2 | He has n't been round for a while , Andy , has he ? |
| 3 | ‘ He has n't been downstairs for over five years . |
| 4 | ‘ He has n't been here for some time , ’ Hari answered . |
| 5 | Er , yes that was David , Robert has n't , Robert 's coming next weekend , but he has n't been here for a few weeks |
| 6 | ‘ I do n't understand it , he has n't been here in ten years ! |
| 7 | ‘ But he has n't been anywhere near our place , or tried to see Anna . ’ |
| 8 | Mm and old Bob down the road , Bob , he has n't been in for about the same sort of time this 'll be his fourth week wo n't it ? |
| 9 | He has n't been back to South Africa in years . ’ |
| 10 | He has n't been back to work since Christmas . |
| 11 | He has n't been home for twelve months |
| 12 | ‘ He has n't been out for days , ’ another boy said . |
| 13 | Wright is not that much of a loss — in the games he has played for the national team which i have seen he has not been up to par . |
| 14 | Remittance Man deserved this change of luck as he has never been out of the frame in his seven previous starts but had only managed one win . |
| 15 | He has always been fanatically into body culture , punishing his muscles to keep them at the peak of definition and tone . |
| 16 | He 'd never been out of Russia . |
| 17 | He 'd never been out on the roads and got killed . |
| 18 | He just disappeared , as if he 'd never been there at all . |
| 19 | He had not been in since yesterday . |
| 20 | He had not been back to Stowe since the day he left , almost seventeen years before . |
| 21 | He had n't been round for days . |
| 22 | He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ? |
| 23 | ‘ He had n't been home for weeks , anyway … ’ |
| 24 | He had n't been back to Beirut in four years . |
| 25 | But he had n't been out in the |
| 26 | Running the film group for ICI gave Haslam particular pleasure because it was the first time he had ever been fully in charge of a business , which he found very challenging . |
| 27 | He had often been out of work during the boy ‘ s early years in the west of Sheffield ‘ where the city meanders in a smokey , greasy straggle of workshops into Rotherham ’ . |
| 28 | He had always been so against any kind of what he called ‘ gobbledygook ’ . |
| 29 | He had never been out of her thoughts , not for a minute . |
| 30 | But he had only been away for three days . |