Example sentences of "he [vb past] [been] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been off drugs for six months when he died in that fire . ’ |
| 2 | He played like he 'd been on tranquilisers for a month and drifted out of the game into a deep and ineffectual sleep . |
| 3 | worse thinking he 'd been to solicitors but I 'm trying to track down anybody ! |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | She was his only daughter and the youngest of seven , and he had been at pains to give her a good education . |
| 6 | To be sure , one could sympathize with the sentiments of some of those penitents who refused themselves pleasures because the Emperor , saviour of mankind , could experience no pleasure whatever , locked as he had been for millennia in his prosthetic throne … |
| 7 | The effort of giving Sam as much exercise as he wanted made Albert more fit than he had been for years . |
| 8 | He had been off drugs for three months . |
| 9 | He had been in scenes like this with his teenage daughters , and he kept thinking : ‘ I must stay cool . ’ |
| 10 | He had been in trawlers and , when he found I was interested , told me a lot about fishing off Iceland and Spitzbergen . |
| 11 | Massive , grizzled and elderly , he had been in ships since he was a boy , and he wanted no other life . |
| 12 | It had looked suspicious , I had done right to inform them , they said kindly , but the man had nothing on his person at all , and said he had been after rabbits . |