Example sentences of "he had been [adv] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Perhaps the patient had taken medicine for his stomach while he had been away from the table , and taken too much . |
| 2 | Born about 1182 in Normandy , the son of a German father ( Henry the Lion ) and an Aquitanian mother , he had been much in the company of his uncle , King Richard I , who created him count of Poitou at the age of fourteen . |
| 3 | I found it hard to believe that , even if he had been out of the country , his family could have moved away without his knowing . |
| 4 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 5 | He was fully dressed as if he had been out of the chateau . ’ |
| 6 | Sir Richard , in hose and open cambric shirt , wiped dust from his hands , apologising that he had been out with the craftsmen who were putting the finishing touches to their pageant for the young king 's coronation . |
| 7 | He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat . |
| 8 | We tended to think of Sandy as a liability because he had been so over the past years . |
| 9 | But he had been there at the right time , he had acted swiftly and effectively and she was alive . |
| 10 | For when he had been there at the end of the war it was very much the preserve of the officer class . |
| 11 | He had been there in the palace at Tongjiang with her , and still he had not visited her bed . |
| 12 | His wife in her innocence told us he had been down at the steamer when we landed and had slipped out of sight , and next morning he had left at six o'clock to go and visit a small island North of Jura where he had never been known to go before . " |
| 13 | Up to and including 1920 he had been consistently on the left of the Bolshevik Party , and this particular book was his last major offering from that stance before his subsequent evolution to the ‘ right ’ of the party . |