Example sentences of "man [verb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The big man has been in a clinic since breaking a leg against Crystal Palace last week and the only way he can join in the Reds rise is by cheering them on in front of his telly . |
| 2 | er , she said that they 'd been to the said this man had been to her house . |
| 3 | The old man had been with her in the shop that morning , the same as ever , gossiping about the business , about the vagaries of their customers , the oddities of town councillors and the perverseness of families — all with a humour that was wickedly spiced . |
| 4 | Another man had been at the table for some time but Beales only looked at him at this point , curious to know who MacQuillan was with . |
| 5 | The underlying thesis that the unity of man is natural while the diversity of man in society is cultural is a still prevalent orthodoxy among all Marxists and a qualified orthodoxy among most contemporary anthropologists , including myself , but it originally emerged , in the course of the late-seventeenth and eighteenth centuries , as a dialectical response to Hobbes ' ( 1651 ) formula that , in the beginning , man had been like Cain , a wanderer in the wilderness , whose life was one of " continual fear and danger of violent death . |
| 6 | The man had been in the wood and had perhaps seen the animal cemetery . |