Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] [been] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was sentenced to twelve months in jail but was released when the court heard he 'd already been in custody for ten months . |
| 2 | Poor darling , he 'd probably been to hell and back as well last night . |
| 3 | So apparently he 'd never been to school ? |
| 4 | He had evidently been in fear of his life and purchased the weapon for that reason , since he had already been attacked on two previous occasions . |
| 5 | Among them were those who were convinced that he had secretly been in league with the employers . |
| 6 | Confession had not been a factor in the slowness of Pétain 's promotion in the way that it had checked the career of Foch , de Castelnau and other ardent Catholics ; indeed , Pétain could boast that he had not been to Mass for thirty years , so on this score alone he should have been earmarked , as things stood , for rapid advancement . |
| 7 | He was fully dressed , his shirt creased enough to imply he had not been to bed at all . |
| 8 | He had not been to university , he had some difficulty in grasping complex economic issues , and was prone to malapropisms , but was widely respected for his managerial skills and his political experience . |
| 9 | Most attention focuses here on shifts in Labour policy , on armaments and on the EC , to which may also be added another less publicised shift , namely on attitudes to the US : when Foot became leader of the Labour Party in 1979 , he had not been to Washington since the 1940s ; Kinnock and his associates were frequent , and informed , visitors . |
| 10 | He had not been at Eton himself but when he played for the masters his volleying in the Field Game — the Eton form of football — was long remembered . |
| 11 | But then , of course , he had not been at home . |
| 12 | He had not been on duty on the afternoon of the shooting or responsible for any of the aftermath investigations . |
| 13 | He had not been in court that morning after all ? |
| 14 | Furthermore , as evidenced in correspondence , he had not been in contact with his accountant , who knew of the General Commissioners ' decision , between 17 June 1991 and the end of October 1991 . |
| 15 | He received a letter the next day apologizing and accepting that he had not been in possession of a stolen car . |
| 16 | He had not been in trouble before and acted totally out of character . |
| 17 | Ajeya Singh returned to India and tried to refute the allegations , pointing out numerous flaws in the report , and offered his passport as evidence that he had not been in St Kitts when he was supposed to have signed documents opening the account with the now-defunct bank , the First Trust Corporation . |
| 18 | He perceived that he was ‘ up against ’ the position of having to carry on his life not as an emotion , but as a scientific game ; that he was committed by circumstances to novel writing as a regular trade , as much as he had formerly been to architecture ; and that hence he would , he deemed , have to look for material in manners — in ordinary social and fashionable life as the other novelists did . |
| 19 | Succeeding Heinz Häsler , he had previously been in charge of the Defence Department engineering corps . |
| 20 | Those Simpsons , for instance , who knew the Foinmen no better than they knew Stonehenge , Dadda who bragged he had n't been on Vangmoor these twenty years . |
| 21 | If he had n't been on duty he would have been there . |
| 22 | Peter was a poor salesman , but he had n't been at DPR quite long enough yet to get sacked . |
| 23 | He had n't been to London in years , and did n't wish to . |
| 24 | He said he had n't been in trouble before . |
| 25 | He had thought she 'd rally round even though he had n't been in touch for nearly a year . |
| 26 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |
| 27 | The Goldsmiths confirmed Chorleton 's re-appointment formally on 19th May 1557 , when they acknowledged that he had actually been in office since the previous Lady Day . |
| 28 | He had often been on duty at the hospital , and then Comfort and Julia would lie on long cushioned chairs on the terrace , breathing in the lemon scent of the immense magnolia that sprawled up the old red brick of the house and talking about him and about what life might be like when they all left Oxford . |
| 29 | Francesca sounded rattled and hostile , and McLeish gazed at the wall , wondering if he had really been in love with her for over a year . |
| 30 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |