Example sentences of "he [been] [adj] [prep] " in BNC.

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No	Sentence
1	Had he been present at the gathering in the public bar of the Queen Anne pub near the Rotherhithe Tunnel he would have been worried even more .
2	Had he been asleep at the time ?
3	Had he been unfeeling in handing back the bowler 's sweater less than gently ( but by no means callously ) after an over full of backchat by the bowler and his captain ?
4	Had he been cruel to Sybil Vane ?
5	Had he been involved in inflicting those ‘ severe losses ’ ?
6	The visitors came back into the game with two penalty goals by Graves and could have turned ends 9–9 had he been successful with his third penalty goal on half-time .
7	The board assessed his compensation at a substantially lower figure than he would have been awarded by an industrial tribunal had he been able in law to appeal to such a tribunal .
8	Despite all the evidence against her , despite her own words , her betraying silences , had he been wrong about Isabel from the start ?
9	He had trod a very narrow path , fraught with danger ; had he been wrong on any detail , it would have spelt disaster .
10	Rozanov had not seen the man , in any form , nor had he been aware of speaking those words .
11	He was so naturally modest ( some have described his so-called humility — ‘ the most difficult of Christian virtues ’ , as he put it — as an irritating pose ) that had he been aware of this silent hero-worship , he would no doubt have felt uneasy .
12	Had he been willing for Otto to do what he did ?
13	Has he been bad to that poor wee , wee'un again ?
14	Nor has he been idle since 1990 , when he was apparently left without a City role after relinquishing executive control of money-brokers R P Martin , and the closure of his Quadrex Securities .
15	Nor had he been idle in Salzburg : he had written two duos for violin and viola to help out his fellow-composer Michael Haydn , who was in the service of the archbishop .

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