Example sentences of "he [verb] been [prep] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said . |
| 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 on sick leave for more than three months during which Avon County Council has been inquiring into phone calls said to have been made from his Bristol office to soft-porn ‘ adult ’ 0898 numbers . |
| 6 | He has been like that for since he 's been with her he has |
| 7 | He has been like this for around 10 months , and feeds normally . |
| 8 | During most of his life he has been in close touch with village life in different parts of the country . |
| 9 | Since Sunset And Vine 's trainer Simon Dow took over the Epsom stables of Ron Smyth last year and he has been in tremendous form since , saddling 23 jumping winners and six on the Flat . |
| 10 | An employee needs to show that he has been in two years continuous employment . |
| 11 | All that might have made Mr Kohl even more overbearing than he has been in recent weeks , to the dismay of West Germany 's allies and neighbours . |
| 12 | He has been in serious office since 1979 , in cabinet for nine years . |
| 13 | Now , at last , Jacob realizes the full extent of the danger he has been in all night . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | 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 . |
| 16 | He 'd been along all these paths before . |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | I was reading somewhere this morning where he 'd been with eight clubs in one season . |
| 20 | 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 ? |
| 21 | 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 . |
| 22 | He 'd been like that once , he 'd trusted and believed , and look what had happened to him . |
| 23 | 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 . |
| 24 | 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 . |
| 25 | How else would he have been with such a father ? |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | 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 . |
| 28 | He had been at such pains . |
| 29 | He was " more reconciled and calm " than he had been at thirty ; " age had not made him wiser " but I have never been wise " . |
| 30 | He had been at this cure for a mere four years but his reputation was growing fast . |