Example sentences of "[conj] he [verb] been [adv] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When Home succeeded Macmillan , he moved Edward Heath from the Foreign Office ( where he had been Home 's number two ) to the Board of Trade . |
| 2 | Originally from Turangi , in King Country , New Zealand , McIntosh now lives in South Wales , where he has been quietly making a name for himself with his performances for Pontypridd . |
| 3 | In the Wedgwood Benn Case 1961 the House of Commons refused to allow Tony Benn to take his seat although he had been duly elected . |
| 4 | Furthermore , although he had been pretty well openly accused of dishonesty at the meeting , his moral standards were much the same as Richard 's , only he did not feel he was well enough off to apply them as often , and in such a wide range of conditions , as the Skipper . |
| 5 | They had not entirely forgotten him back home , then , although he had been away 37 years . |
| 6 | My mum dabbed her eyes with her handkerchief and said , ‘ Arnold Bottomley had a seizure when he was on a canal boat and it took four of us to hold him , although he had been so easy-going on other trips , especially the Greek one that I did n't go on . |
| 7 | Grunte , he opined , was ‘ a pain in the bum ’ , although he had been quite helpful over the matter of the new motorway route which happened to pass through his garden or , if not his garden , damn close . |
| 8 | Although he has been bitterly hurt by the allegations , 52-year-old Brigadier Parker Bowles has struggled to maintain life as normal . |
| 9 | They knew that he 'd been here . |
| 10 | And yet there was the suggestion that he 'd been just a little unlucky , perhaps ? |
| 11 | Two detectives accused of altering a suspect 's statement to conceal the fact that he 'd been unlawfully arrested have been cleared of conspiracy to pervert the course of justice . |
| 12 | Why , it was almost half-past ten , yet there was no Ace , nor any signs that he 'd been downstairs before her . |
| 13 | It worried her that he 'd been secretly observing her . |
| 14 | ‘ Only that he 'd been abroad . |
| 15 | He said his name was John and that he 'd been sexually abused as a child . |
| 16 | ‘ They do n't show us that he 'd been anywhere he might not be expected to have been , if you see what I mean . |
| 17 | ‘ He made out that he 'd gone to take a nostalgic look at it , and of course he never said he 'd tried to get in , or that he 'd been before … |
| 18 | He said that he 'd been there three weeks . |
| 19 | Afterwards he admitted that he had been favourably impressed with Old Savill 's , except that the women were too grandly dressed . |
| 20 | ‘ Taking into account all the circumstances , the committee felt that he had been properly placed on List One and on the evidence available were not minded to move him to List Two as he had requested . ’ |
| 21 | He was referring to print-outs that had enabled the US Congress to discover that he had been secretly bombing Cambodia . |
| 22 | In the same way that , in 1941 , he had been convinced that Hitler was in his debt for services rendered in the struggle against communism , Franco now believed the western powers owed it to him to recognize that he had been right all along . |
| 23 | Rostov shook his head , concealing the knowledge that he had been briefly in danger of his life . |
| 24 | Kim Dae Jung also claimed that his supporters had been harassed and that he had been unfairly smeared as a supporter of North Korean President Kim Il Sung . |
| 25 | It may be relevant for the Industrial Tribunal to investigate whether at the time he was dismissed and if not then when thereafter , he knew that he had the right to complain that he had been unfairly dismissed ; in some cases the Tribunal may have to consider whether there has been any misrepresentation about any relevant matter by the employer to the employee . |
| 26 | Hinds convinced the libel jury that he had been wrongfully convicted , so the newspaper 's defence of justification failed . |
| 27 | All he knew was that he had been inadequately protected , and that an attempt on his life had been thwarted by the merest accident . |
| 28 | He added that he had been well treated when he returned for the US Open . |
| 29 | When St Paul told the Christians in Philippi that he had learnt to be content , he did n't mean that he was smug ; it did n't mean that he had been well fed and could put his feet up . |
| 30 | They fell against the desk that he had been previously sitting on . |