Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.

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31 Her husband , Stuart , 52 , said yesterday he had been in daily contact with her since she flew to Canada last month on the second pilgrimage to find her son .
32 It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months .
33 He remembered the last time he had been in this situation .
34 Although Sorley was to make light of the experience , he had been in considerable danger .
35 From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger .
36 One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships .
37 Others would emerge from the ruin of the body itself , and he had been in constant contact with Ian Macdonald , who was still at work in Oxford .
38 He had been round 18 holes at Wentworth , if only on a buggy , and spent an hour in the weights room working on his upper body .
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