Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 5 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 6 | Rain asked whether he had been to Sabine Jourdain 's home . |
| 7 | 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 ) : |
| 8 | 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 … . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had been in good health , and had been subjected to no particular strain or exertion . |
| 11 | Pike is n't a big guy , but he did this like he had been in secret weight-training . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | Although Sorley was to make light of the experience , he had been in considerable danger . |
| 14 | 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 . |