Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He had evidently been through all this before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Owing to his lack of resources he had always been to some extent a figurehead , but he had become an indispensable one . |
| 5 | He had always been against this extravagant gesture , he pointed out , and now he was being proved right . |