Example sentences of "he had been [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So , eager to help , she went over to him , he had been around for a while but he was strange so nobody really spoke to him . |
| 2 | He had been neither to a great school nor to a university . |
| 3 | Rostov shook his head , concealing the knowledge that he had been briefly in danger of his life . |
| 4 | He had been Away on a Course when she first joined , and when she met him it was — as far as she was concerned — hate at first sight . |
| 5 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 6 | After his visits to London his wife was waiting to welcome him as if he had been away for weeks , and she was always dutiful in bed . |
| 7 | Nevertheless they smiled and waved at him as he came in and Deuce , at the tape recorder , came over , arms open , as if he had been away for weeks . |
| 8 | He had been away for some hours . |
| 9 | He had been away from his wife and family for nearly two weeks now . |
| 10 | He was tempted to go in and get it over , but he had been away from his temporary headquarters for a long time and he did not even know if the body had bean recovered successfully . |
| 11 | Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much . |
| 12 | Jarvis Stringer 's grandparents ' qualifications for keeping a school were that he had been up at Oxford where he had read Greats and she had left Goldsmith 's College halfway through her teacher training . |
| 13 | Only that he had been up at San Carlos about two years and had a wife that was supposed to be very pretty and about fifteen years younger than he was . |
| 14 | He had been up for hours , out on the farm , before eating . |
| 15 | I imagined he had been up to something I would rather not know about . |
| 16 | He had been up to my room that afternoon and asked my advice . |
| 17 | She could n't care less what he had been up to , but quite suddenly it had become imperative that she steer the conversation away from herself and divert the interest he was showing in her . |
| 18 | He kicked his holdall out of the way and flopped down on to the sofa , quite exhausted by whatever he had been up to since the day he left . |
| 19 | He had been up since five to meet the boat from which he was being exploited . |
| 20 | He had been apart from Irina on many occasions — too many — but a permanent separation was something he still had to get used to . |
| 21 | There may be occasions when it is quite right or entirely understandable that an asylum applicant did not make his claim until he had been here for some time . |
| 22 | When I was eventually connected with my Commander-in-Chief I was to learn that this was the first night he had been abed in 13 consecutive nights of operations . |
| 23 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 24 | In later years , Roderick confided that he had been far from happy with the title , for the book certainly was not " elementary " . |
| 25 | In the first place he had been in to his office and delayed their departure until after lunch . |
| 26 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 27 | He had been abroad on his support-gathering tour at the time of the malai invasion . |
| 28 | He had been across to New York with The Lady 's Not For Burning , just before the Stratford season . |
| 29 | He had been twice to Iraq . |
| 30 | He had been twice into Ruane 's office , and the first time the block had been polite , and the second time he had been told rather less politely to sit on his hands and wait , like everybody else had to . |