Example sentences of "he [verb] been [prep] [det] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Named after the mansion in Wuthering Heights , this is a desolate agricultural commune run by Jimmy Ahmed , back from London , where he has been in some vague way a celebrity . |
| 2 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
| 3 | We were not reassured when a solitary American tourist travelling on the same flight told us he 'd been on this very plane on a previous flight , and they found petrol pouring down the window before take-off , and had to do some repair work on it . |
| 4 | As he stood by the glass cabinet in his bedroom where the file had reclined on a couch of red velvet since the Exhibition recuperating from its victory , the Collector remembered , with amazement and disgust at his petty chauvinism , how pleased he had been by this trivial affair . |
| 5 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 6 | He 's been in some good ones actually . |
| 7 | He 's been like that all his life , why bother now ? |