Example sentences of "to him [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | In doing so , he had to jettison most of what those close to him had been telling him for the past 16 months . |
| 2 | Was it because everything that had been precious to him had been torn from him that he had to find someone to blame for his losses , someone to take advantage of , someone from whom he could derive consolation ? |
| 3 | Her last words to him had been a curse yet she had felt him at her side on the day she had marched to York with Richard Oastler . |
| 4 | The desire to make love to him had been irresistible , but that temporary blindness had gone , and what she saw made her shudder . |
| 5 | Her response to him had been totally instinctive , nothing to do with anything she had read or seen . |
| 6 | All the evidence points to him having been selected by South Africa 's white military intelligence arm as their puppet . |
| 7 | Her smile seemed to him to have been almost aloof , perhaps even disapproving . |
| 8 | He was suspicious of all educational innovations that did not seem to him to have been carefully thought through , and he was critical , too , of the report of the committee on higher education ( 1961–4 ) chaired by Baron Robbins [ q.v. ] and of large-scale university expansion . |
| 9 | It suddenly seemed to him to have been lull of long damp nights sleeping under the stars , desperate fights with trolls , city guards , countless bandits and evil priests and , on at least three occasions , actual demigods — and for what ? |
| 10 | But those women closest to him have been singularly unlucky . |