Example sentences of "for him [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had left her and gone to live with an upper-class woman , had soared to the opposite end of the scale from Josie , whose attraction for him had been that of a splenetic victim from the lower depths of the goyim : but Josie had refused a divorce and the ordeal had dragged on . |
| 2 | Patrick had been company , tending him had been a solace , hoping for him had been a hope . |
| 3 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 4 | Her feelings for him had been a pallid thing beside what she now felt for Fen . |
| 5 | She had always suspected that he 'd had little time for any brain power that she might possess — just as she had always known that her chief value for him had been the almost instantaneous sexual desire they had felt for each other . |
| 6 | " Yes , I do , " says the shepherd , " but the only thing I could do to express my love for Him has been taken away from me . " |