Example sentences of "he had been [adv prt] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | He did n't want to think of what would happen if his mother discovered that he had been out of the house . |
| 3 | He was fully dressed as if he had been out of the chateau . ’ |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | He had been out on the streets all day and his face was running with sweat . |
| 6 | 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 . " |