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 | 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 . |
| 7 | Succeeding Heinz Häsler , he had previously been in charge of the Defence Department engineering corps . |
| 8 | Could any man believe he had the right to send another to his death simply because he had once been to gaol ? |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | He did talk to his wife , Empress Farah , but otherwise he had never been at ease with Iranians . |
| 13 | Like many marine painters he had never been to sea . |
| 14 | Manchester City ! ’ he said , continuing the chant which was so like those I had heard at Manchester 's Maine Road ground that I marvelled when he said he had never been to England . |
| 15 | He also said he had never been to St Kitts . |
| 16 | He suffered from the small disadvantage that he had never been to Rhodesia . |
| 17 | ‘ A Bit of a Smash in Madras ’ , told in the words of an English employee of a company in the east , had all the best qualities of his prose : pace , realism ( Connolly was amazed to learn that he had never been in India ) , exact rendering of the spoken word . |
| 18 | He had never been in hospital before and consulted his General Practitioner infrequently . |
| 19 | Up to then he had never been in front — he was three down with 11 holes to play — but he went one up at the 17th the second time around . |
| 20 | He had never been in trouble before and was frightened and bewildered at his own behaviour . |
| 21 | It may well be that Wilfrid was no more acceptable to Ecgfrith than he had originally been to Oswiu . |
| 22 | Having said that he was very immature the report added that there had been considerable improvement , but it had taken a long time ( he had only been at school for four terms and had had a change of teacher ) . |