Example sentences of "[subord] he [verb] been for [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 2 | It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades . |
| 3 | Paul climbed the stairs in trepidation ; had he made some mistake in the corrections , blind with pain as he had been for part of the day ? |
| 4 | This shows that Anselm was quite as ready to face exile for the primacy as he had been for obedience to the pope . |
| 5 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |