Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [prep] [adj] " 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 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 6 | But one , one of the coloured chaps where Tasha works said he was he 'd been to one of these Blind Dates , he was on but we have n't come across him yet have we ? |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | He had been at such pains . |
| 14 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 15 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | He had been at large in occupied France and had quite a tough time of it , but at least he survived and came back to Baldersdale . |
| 19 | 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 . |
| 20 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 21 | He smiled ; he had been on intimate terms with death for a long while , it had no terrors for him . |
| 22 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 23 | ‘ Parul knew he had been with other women and they rowed about it . |
| 24 | I am sure that if he had been with one of the stronger or more glamorous clubs at the time , his name would now be held in respect by a far wider clientele than those relatively few of us who were privileged to see him play his heart out for Crystal Palace . |
| 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 | Archbishop Aethelberht is said not to have spared evil kings , and there must be a possibility that he was soon as disenchanted with Aethelred 's faction as he had been with Alhred 's . |
| 27 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 28 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 29 | 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 . |
| 30 | 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 . |