Example sentences of "he [verb] [adv] been [adj -er] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gratitude to him has always been greater in the Orthodox churches of the East than in the West , where his domination of the church has often not been regarded as an altogether unmitigated good , at least in its consequences . |
| 2 | He has his independence and he tells me he has never been happier in his life . |
| 3 | If , of course , he had ever been nearer to Longner , that night , than this disastrous place . |
| 4 | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now , driving up to it , it struck him again that the description ‘ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate . |
| 5 | He was a family man and , despite being a native New Yorker , he had never been closer to real violence in his whole life than on the TV. screen of his comfortable suburban house in Richmond . |
| 6 | Yet he had never been further from his native village than the horse and carriage festival forty miles away , where he competed every year . |