Example sentences of "he had be [adj] [prep] some " in BNC.

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1 It was during this time that as a senior staff officer of V Corps he had been involved with some of the orders to repatriate the Russian and Yugoslav prisoners .
2 In London , just before the war , almost no one had heard of Paul Klee , although in Germany he had been famous for some years .
3 He had been unwell for some time and had now gone into a state of collapse .
4 He had been asleep for some time , physically exhausted after his ordeal , but now he tossed and turned , held fast in the grip of some awful nightmare .
5 He had been ill for some time .
6 He had been ill for some time , and passed away peacefully on 12 April .
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