Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [adv] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was like when his Giro cheques from the unemployment people had n't turned up the last time he 'd been out of work ; it was all done to wear him down . |
| 2 | He was from and he 'd been out of work a long time . |
| 3 | ‘ He 'd been out of football for nine months in France , and he had to put up with the boo-ing . |
| 4 | He 'd been all over town and had a few vocals left , a few guitar bits , and was rather disenchanted with the studio he was using . |
| 5 | Rostov shook his head , concealing the knowledge that he had been briefly in danger of his life . |
| 6 | The latter , a cashier with the company , immediately protested his innocence and said that he had been away on holiday at the time . |
| 7 | So to the middle-aged man who came up to me in the car park and confessed that in the fifth form he had been silently in love with me — why did n't he say so at the time ? |
| 8 | He had been out of work for a year and some mates had clubbed up to give him enough money to take a three-week walking holiday on the Pennine Way . |
| 9 | After he had been out of work for months his telephone rang and a manager asked to see him . |
| 10 | Did that , he was asked in the House of Commons , mean that he had been out of sympathy with the policies of the Government in which he served in the '80s ? |
| 11 | While originally he had been fully in support of the Arusha Declaration and allied policies , later he began to attack the Government from London . |
| 12 | He had been there since lunchtime , and it had been while she 'd watched him that she had come to the decision that she must go . |
| 13 | Whether he had been there by accident or whether he had spotted me arriving and slunk into position I shall never know , but from his point of view the result must have been eminently satisfactory because it was certainly the worst fright I have ever had . |