Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] under [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been under attack from right-wing politicians for some time , in particular for signing an appeal by a wide range of opposition forces calling for greater democracy in Hungary . |
| 2 | It was obvious that he had been under house arrest at some point in his life . ’ |
| 3 | He had been under pressure to water down the doctrine of collegiality . |
| 4 | He had been under pressure from Edward III to do so for some time , but he seems also to have feared that Charles V 's forces , which were advancing into the duchy , might revive the rivalries of the civil war period . |
| 5 | He liked to give the impression he had been under fire — of a sort . |
| 6 | It did not disturb him that he had been under observation ; he was not accustomed to deprecate what he was , or to undervalue it . |