Example sentences of "he [verb] been [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since Christmas day her feelings for him had been in such a chaotic state she did n't know whether she loved or hated him . |
| 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 like that for since he 's been with her he has |
| 6 | He has been like this for around 10 months , and feeds normally . |
| 7 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 8 | What especially pleases me is that we are extraordinarily popular and that Wolfgang is admired here even more than he has been in all the other towns of Italy ; the reason is that Bologna is the centre and dwelling-place of many masters , artists and scholars . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
| 11 | Getting him out of bed in the mornings in time for school became a real problem for his family when he 'd been up most of the night with pencil and note book . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 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 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 17 | We started the gradual process of bringing him back into work , hoping that he had been through all his disasters in one go : first he cut himself and had to be stitched , and then he got kicked on the hock . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | He had been at such pains . |
| 20 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 21 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 22 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 25 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 28 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 29 | But to her amazement he did nothing of the kind , but , shaking his head as if he had been under some kind of stress , ‘ I did n't think I could have got your innocence so completely wrong , ’ he stated gruffly . |
| 30 | She had not slept with Ivan , nor ever would , but was deriving a secret satisfaction from the knowledge that present at her party that night would be all the men with whom she had ever slept : or all save one , and he had been from another country , and she had not known his name . |