Example sentences of "he [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Everyone calls 'im Sergeant Joe , 'e 's been in the Army , yer see . ’ |
| 2 | The Fat Controller looked more at home in this context than I could ever imagine him to have been at Cliff Top , or anywhere else for that matter . |
| 3 | His will , proved in December of that year , shows him to have been in easy circumstances . |
| 4 | And if the only deep emotion she had ever seen in him had been on the day of Ben Braithwaite 's engagement to Magda Tannenbaum , then she felt no right and no reason to be astonished at that . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The current , soon to retire , director of the Association , who came with me to meet him had been in London for a meeting of the environmental advisory group for and so he was having a taxi to Kings Cross which I jumped into too and got dropped off at Goodge Street , right outside the door of my next ( Industrial Editors ) meeting with just a few minutes to spare , so that went more smoothly than one might have ever dreamt or hoped for . |
| 7 | He says that he is clean now ; Issy and him have been off the stuff for five whole days . |
| 8 | Of course he has been over it a million times in his mind , but when the normal glide speed is 160kts , with the drop tanks you should have 175kts , add another 15 on top of that to flare it from a descent , and he really needed 200 kts to make a decent landing in those conditions . |
| 9 | ‘ He has been of great service to the Reich , ’ Himmler said . |
| 10 | He has been to Taiwan on two or three occasions and it was his idea that we come to New Zealand and develop our forward play ’ , said Lin . |
| 11 | ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’ |
| 12 | He is very affectionate , and I would n't be without him now , and he has been to the vet 's for his injections so as to avoid another disaster . |
| 13 | ‘ Tagan is our best tracker , ’ Ratagan said , ‘ and he has been to the Greshorns . ’ |
| 14 | He has been to my constituency recently , although he did not inform me of the fact . |
| 15 | He is a fair-minded bloke on occasions — at least he has been to me . |
| 16 | Will the Italian Abbado remain musical director of the Vienna State Opera where he has been for the past three years ? |
| 17 | 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 . |
| 18 | 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 . |
| 19 | It 's also a relaxed , romantic ad for Bill S , more alive here than he has been for decades . |
| 20 | He has been for the last six years . ’ |
| 21 | Since you came here he has laughed more and been amused more than he has been for the past two years . |
| 22 | I do not know where he has been for the past few years , but we have reduced the rates on lower earnings so that people now pay on average about £3 a week less in national insurance . |
| 23 | He has been with ‘ our old friend ’ too long . |
| 24 | Milton has lived in the same stable all the time he has been with the Whitakers . |
| 25 | But , while that event was the climax to date of Richard 's career with the Palace , he has been with us since his schoolboy days , for he is one of the products of the currently highly resourceful youth development programme at Selhurst Park , and his mature performances in defence earned Richard the Palace Young Player of the Year award in 1986 . |
| 26 | One occasionally has a glimpse of Green 's neighbours after he has been with them , or heard of their deaths , when he liked to write their obituaries . |
| 27 | He has been with us since yesterday . |
| 28 | Although he has been with the organisation since his teens , the appointment was revolutionary since Mr Newmarch was from the investment side of the business , rather than an actuary . |
| 29 | He has been with me ever since . ’ |
| 30 | He has been with the police for 19 years , and has served at Colchester , Chelmsford , police HQ and for two years worked for Scotland Yard in conjunction with Interpol . |