Example sentences of "[noun sg] he [verb] [been] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 2 | All he knew was that compared with the trollop he had been with the day before , she was like a princess , a very untouchable snow princess seven years older than he , who had recently lost her husband . |
| 3 | Martinho , too , sensing what the rules of disengagement from the deathbed were going to be , allowed them to have their fun , or the priestly hypocrite he 'd been in the jungle — got his kicks out of the spectacle , what he might regard as my just deserts for my equivocal behaviour toward him in those nightmare days . |
| 4 | In his work he has been at the forefront of a movement fighting to drag British dance into the 20th century . |
| 5 | In the year and a half he has been at the Lyric he has established himself as something of a ‘ character ’ and has chalked up a number of box office successes . |
| 6 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 7 | But I tell you what , ’ he said confidentially , ‘ I reckon I know one place he 's been since then . |
| 8 | The majority of the day he had been at Ascot Races . |
| 9 | It transpired that the previous day he had been in Liverpool and given an interview to the Daily Telegraph which had been interpreted to mean that we were about to call in the troops . |
| 10 | By mid-morning he had been through the day 's edition of the Herald Tribune . |
| 11 | Is he ashamed of the fact that every month he has been in office reading standards of seven-year-olds have fallen ? |
| 12 | For the last week he 's been in a hospice with terminal cancer . |
| 13 | All morning he had been in a strange , erratic mood and as the car began to bump its way off down the track Tug felt a great lightening of his spirits . |
| 14 | On a personal level , the calm and cool Monie has also swept all before him , winning the Coach of the Year award every season he has been in Britain . |
| 15 | He was sixty-four now , but as a young man he had been in the army and seen action on the North-West Frontier . |
| 16 | First there 's Gary Harris … four seasons in a row he 's been in the English boys team … |
| 17 | He could not afford to make mistakes ; all his life he had been at pains to learn and understand how ordinary people live and had delved into the seamier side of human nature , but he was still very unworldly . |
| 18 | He knew that she had not enjoyed his homecoming or the renewal of a sexual life ; throughout their married life he had been at home for only a few weeks at a time , and she had been free to make her life as she chose . |
| 19 | In earlier life he had been in Canada and it is certain that at least some youthful potential emigrants to Canada were inspired by his accounts of life there . |
| 20 | During most of his life he has been in close touch with village life in different parts of the country . |
| 21 | One instant he had been in mid-spring , forelegs extended and jaws agape , aiming himself at the crouching man-thing before them , the next , the target had moved with blurring speed , rising swiftly to meet him head-on . |
| 22 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 23 | Father Donnelly was also there , looking plumper these days , but still the same cheerful personality he had been in Brooklyn . |
| 24 | However , since he left school he has been in no further trouble with the police and , although unemployed , remains happily at home with his family . |
| 25 | 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 . |
| 26 | Mr Prescott told the court that on the fateful evening Boxing Day last year he had been in the pub with Mr Maltby and another friend . |
| 27 | Since joining the BDDA he had been to every one of its Congresses and his inclusion as third member of this select trio was extremely popular . |
| 28 | Over the weekend he has been at the Spring Thing folk festival at Darlington Arts Centre , where he has been selling home-made ear-rings and Asian crafts . |
| 29 | Philip saw a photograph of the house he 'd been to with Mrs Wright , only it was a different time of year . |
| 30 | By the time he had been through that and was ready to return , Jennifer had been married and divorced and was almost a stranger again . |