Example sentences of "he [vb past] [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 | 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had been at such pains . |
| 11 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |
| 12 | He had been on that motorbike , which was in bits over beside the wall . |
| 13 | When he had been on this diet for ten days he was tested with various foods . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | Here , as he had been for much of the past week , Thomas was contentedly playing . |
| 16 | He had been for many years an Examiner with the Joint Matriculation Board , and latterly Chief Examiner for the Cambridge Board . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | Before Abbotsfield , he had been to all intents and purposes an honorary member of the Molland family . |
| 19 | Duriez , who described himself as a pacifist , admitted that he had been to some of the raid locations . |
| 20 | 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 . |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | 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 . |
| 23 | He had been in many tight spots during his life , and guarding a warehouse did not trouble him unduly . |
| 24 | But he had been in such a degree of desperation because of his financial position . |
| 25 | He was more frightened than he had been in all the time he had been with them , and he could tell that the girl was frightened too , by her quick , shallow breathing . |
| 26 | People would realize that he was writing about himself , that he had been in that room . |
| 27 | He gave a slight sardonic grunt , remembering how excited he had been in that railway carriage on his way to Carewscourt . |
| 28 | He had been in that street two weeks earlier . |
| 29 | If he had been in some sort of trance , ( lasting who knew how long ? ) that might account for the sudden appearance of Jos . |
| 30 | He remembered the last time he had been in this situation . |