Example sentences of "[coord] he [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 2 | Mr Ashton provoked laughter when he said he had watched the programme because it was set in his constituency , and he had been to school with the father of Sean Bean , one of the stars . |
| 3 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 4 | His name was Roberto Coloni and he had been in hospital following a bad fall in which he had broken his shoulder blade , forearm and two ribs , as well as suffering bad concussion , which had affected his hearing . |
| 5 | One of the managers that come in and he 'd been on holiday for two weeks , but he knew ! |
| 6 | He was n't at all old , but he had been in poetry long enough to take these things coolly . |
| 7 | According to Mr Carson , the professor had taken his degree at Oxford , but he had been in America for several years now . |