Example sentences of "[adv] he [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She tried to make allowances , constantly reminding herself of the responsibility Nathan was carrying and how long he had been without sleep . |
| 2 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 3 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 4 | Unfortunately he 'd been beyond reason , and after hearing in detail from Paul what a fiasco the whole performance had been she was n't surprised . |
| 5 | ‘ A couple of hours earlier he had been at home watching television , eating his tea , just our Danny as he always was — a 14-year-old boy full of life , energy and cheek . ’ |
| 6 | But at least he had been with Grimma . |
| 7 | The CEDA leader , José María Gil Robles , had been politically discredited by his electoral defeat of February 1936 and was now stranded in Biarritz , where he had been on holiday when the rising occurred . |
| 8 | Previously he had been with Intel Corp and Burroughs . |