Example sentences of "he [vb past] [adv] been [verb] for " in BNC.
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| 1 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 2 | I gathered from Anthony ( whom I saw later on Thursday ) that he had neither been asked for his advice nor had volunteered it . |
| 3 | He had also been talking for ages to Broadman , and Ymor had seen a piece of paper change hands . |
| 4 | He brought with him his own group of masons , and a letter of introduction from Humphrey Lovell , the queen 's master mason , according to which he had previously been working for Sir Francis Knollys [ q.v. ] , probably at Caversham House , near Reading . |
| 5 | Perhaps , thought Robert , he had simply been playing for time and had now come up with a credible answer . |
| 6 | ( But in the 1930s , while a teacher of anatomy at the University of Birmingham and investigating hormonal influences in reproduction , he had already been reproved for obscenity by the Archbishop of Canterbury — the executive head of the Anglican Church — over his first book , The Social Life of Monkeys and Apes . ) |
| 7 | Magistrates heard he had already been banned for life from keeping animals when an RSPCA inspection revealed he still had more . |
| 8 | By the time the Master himself arrived in London to be examined in August 1669 , he had already been suspended for two months past by the Chancellor of the Archbishop of York until the controversy could be settled . |
| 9 | He had reportedly been pressing for the USA to distance itself from the peace negotiations and he was therefore opposed to a Washington venue ; he was also known to support a Middle Eastern venue to emphasize the regional , as opposed to the international , nature of the conflict . |
| 10 | He had never been treated for mental illness , and Delroy was still alive in Jamaica . |
| 11 | He had never been used for a hit , and it was unlikely that he could get from Moscow to Tbilisi anyway . |
| 12 | He had obviously been searching for appropriate words of censure during the silence . |