Example sentences of "he [verb] been [prep] [det] [noun] " in BNC.
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1 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
2 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
3 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
4 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
5 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
6 | He looked at me apathetically through a mist of weakness and pain and one could see he 'd been in that water a lot too long . |
7 | He had been at such pains . |
8 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
9 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
10 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
11 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
12 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
13 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
14 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
15 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
16 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |
17 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
18 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
19 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
20 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
21 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
22 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
23 | From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger . |
24 | Du n no , oh he 's , he 's what , he 's been for another job interview and the bloke |
25 | He 's been in that place before , at Sam 's party , and he knows there 's a mooring dock along one wall . |