Example sentences of "he [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | His will , proved in December of that year , shows him to have been in easy circumstances . |
| 2 | ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said . |
| 3 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 4 | During most of his life he has been in close touch with village life in different parts of the country . |
| 5 | Since Sunset And Vine 's trainer Simon Dow took over the Epsom stables of Ron Smyth last year and he has been in tremendous form since , saddling 23 jumping winners and six on the Flat . |
| 6 | All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours . |
| 7 | He has been in serious office since 1979 , in cabinet for nine years . |
| 8 | If he 'd been in deep water he would n't have been damaged so much and neither would he have surfaced yet , perhaps not for several more days . |
| 9 | Ever since he had been at high school he 'd found some enjoyment and relief by getting back at them in ways they obviously did n't expect . |
| 10 | Even Boddy , who had been telling Westerman as they came down the stairs how he had been at Bad Godesberg in 1938 just two days after Hitler and Chamberlain had left , trailed away into silence . |
| 11 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 12 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 13 | Rain asked whether he had been to Sabine Jourdain 's home . |
| 14 | Like many graduates stimulated by their experiences , he discovered that although he had been of sufficient calibre to acquire the offer of the scholarship in the first place , he now faced the inevitable service obsession with a rejection of academic prowess in preference for ‘ practical skills in the real world ’ ( ibid. 157 ) : |
| 15 | How fond he had been of darling Mou-Mou … it broke Mummy 's heart to have her put down , but it was the kindest thing to do … . |
| 16 | He had been in other worlds beside Ridgery Butts , the Yorkshire Dales and the long miles between , and thieving and creeping and running and looking after himself ; but Marian knew only the Ridgery and remembered very faintly some other sort of life , a memory of glints and patches of a different sort of sunlight . |
| 17 | He had been in good health , and had been subjected to no particular strain or exertion . |
| 18 | Pike is n't a big guy , but he did this like he had been in secret weight-training . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | Although Sorley was to make light of the experience , he had been in considerable danger . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | I should think he is tired , he 's been running around this field , he 's been at deep square leg , at third man and everywhere and he just gave me that blank stare . |
| 23 | He says he 's been in terrible pain and he 's glad the operation is going ahead . |
| 24 | and when I talked to Derek Thompson an hour ago , he 's been in good form has Tommo . |
| 25 | He 's been in good form this season . |
| 26 | He 's been in constant contact with the Home Secretary as negotiations have become increasingly difficult but he welcomes the announcement of a Judicial Inquiry . |
| 27 | ‘ Pay Homage should have won his last race at Goodwood and he 's been in fine form all year , ’ Ian said . |