Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has always been like that , even when he was quite small . ’ |
| 2 | He has always been like this . |
| 3 | At one year old he was the ideal age for breeding and although he 'd never been with another bird before , his first mate produced eggs within two months . |
| 4 | He had evidently been through all this before . |
| 5 | He had not been to any of the social functions advertised — it would have seemed like living his life backwards to enter voluntarily a church hall full of women and cups of tea — he could see his mother at the urn and himself as a boy handing round those very cups . |
| 6 | Certainly he had not been in such close proximity to a pretty young girl for as long as he could remember . |
| 7 | One morning he also opened up the building , went upstairs and came down and there was these fresh footprints on a part of the building which he had n't been at that time and he , like myself , looked all over the building and not a soul in sight . |
| 8 | Passion had swept in then , and he had entered her , unable to help himself , clinging to her as she had earlier clung to him , and although he had been gentler than he had ever been with any other woman , she had cried out , and her face had twisted with pain , and Fergus had felt blood on his thighs . |
| 9 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 10 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |
| 11 | ‘ He 's not been like that for a long time . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ It 's the only place he 's ever been outside this country . |
| 13 | And he 's always been like that . |
| 14 | ‘ He is a strain — but it 's not what I have to do for him — it 's the way he is — he 's always been like that . ’ |
| 15 | He 's always been like that and he has n't changed . |
| 16 | He 's always been like that . |
| 17 | But he 's always been like that with them kids you know yourself if they do anything it 's got ta be done |
| 18 | He 's never been like this . |