Example sentences of "he [verb] been [prep] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said . |
| 2 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 3 | The 18th baron , who inherited the title three years ago , has sensibly decided to stay on at the Dower House , where he has been for many years . |
| 4 | He 's fitter and sharper than he has been at any stage of his career , and he 's now playing to his full potential . |
| 5 | He has been on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 6 | During most of his life he has been in close touch with village life in different parts of the country . |
| 7 | Since Sunset And Vine 's trainer Simon Dow took over the Epsom stables of Ron Smyth last year and he has been in tremendous form since , saddling 23 jumping winners and six on the Flat . |
| 8 | An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment . |
| 9 | All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours . |
| 10 | He has been in serious office since 1979 , in cabinet for nine years . |
| 11 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 12 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 13 | Although before this year he 'd been to fewer golf tournaments than we had cold drinks on that hot September afternoon , he still has fond memories of watching Arnold Palmer win the Colonial NIT close to his hometown of Dallas in 1962 . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He had been at such pains . |
| 17 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had been on one knee , but had risen to " attention " and then fallen , expiring without a word or groan , or any valedictory comments whatsoever . |
| 21 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 22 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 23 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 24 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 25 | Apart from the two social occasions when he had been with another girl , Liza had seen little of him , even though she had taken every opportunity to pass by the farmhouse where he was billeted . |
| 26 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 27 | Mr Strachan 's acquaintance with the Library did not begin with his appointment as Chairman , since he had been for many years , as a historian and biographer , a reader in the Library 's Reading Rooms . |
| 28 | His vocal chords abruptly haemorrhaged ; CBS TV dropped him , as did his agent MCA , and Columbia Records with whom he had been for ten years . |
| 29 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 30 | Rain asked whether he had been to Sabine Jourdain 's home . |