Example sentences of "he [vb past] been in [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | He had been in good health , and had been subjected to no particular strain or exertion . |
| 5 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 6 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 7 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 8 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 9 | Pike is n't a big guy , but he did this like he had been in secret weight-training . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | It was impossible at times to imagine that he had been in this camp all of eighteen months . |
| 12 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |
| 13 | Although Sorley was to make light of the experience , he had been in considerable danger . |
| 14 | From his account Bahdu was where he had been in most danger . |
| 15 | One year into marriage he became irritable , demanding and critical , much as he had been in earlier relationships . |
| 16 | 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 . |