Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Odin was all-wise — but he had not been born so ; he had drunk at the fountain of Mimir and had had to pledge an eye . |
| 2 | He had been appalled , as had the rest of the court , at the emaciation of the four ambassadors sent them by the city , but he had not been surprised . |
| 3 | He had won in the maiden class , for those who have yet to win a prize , in 1975 , but he had not been successful since moving into the growers ' section . |
| 4 | He was aware of this and in principle disliked it , attempting when he first set up in private practice , to resist it , but he had not been able to . |
| 5 | The reporter snapped a rubber band over his notebook , told Hank he would have rung him about the details of the book but he had not been able to get through . |
| 6 | He had wanted to wrap his arms about his body for warmth , but he had not been able to move , and his vision had been blurred . |
| 7 | But he had not been in and the note was as she had left it . |
| 8 | But he had not been able to show anyone , yet , that he was anything but what his father now was : a rich man who did what he liked because he was King and everyone was polite to him . |
| 9 | He was still , tensed and alert on the sidling , startled horse ; but he had not been startled . |
| 10 | Of Korean communists associated with Russia , the best known was Kim Il Sung but he had also been involved with the CCP . |
| 11 | His record of service to the community was very similar to his father 's , but he had also been Deputy Lieutenant of Cheshire since 1963 , and more recently High Sheriff of the county . |
| 12 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 13 | She did not know where he was now and she did not really care , but he had probably been the most influential person in her life : her handsome prince and Maggie 's father . |
| 14 | But he had n't been at the PCC because of recovering , still , from the flu . |
| 15 | Peter was a poor salesman , but he had n't been at DPR quite long enough yet to get sacked . |
| 16 | He had farmed the child out , of course , but he had n't been able to quell the fear that somehow she might intrude upon his future . |
| 17 | He had been over twenty before he had even found out about it but he had n't been old enough to dare ask his grandmother how it had been and how she had felt and what they had talked about . |
| 18 | We were told he might have got aggressive or moody but he had n't been any different from usual . |
| 19 | But he had n't been nude . |
| 20 | He did n't love her , of course , not that she expected him to , but he had n't been backward in the lovemaking department , had he ? |
| 21 | But he had n't been out in the |
| 22 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 23 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 24 | His nanny had scolded him over and over , but he had never been able to stop . |
| 25 | But he had never been closer to it than the road and now , driving up to it , it struck him again that the description ‘ cottage ’ was hardly appropriate . |
| 26 | Adam might have escaped the file memories for years , suppressed them and jerked violently away from them , but he had never been able to pretend he was unscathed by those events . |
| 27 | " Tricky Dick " Nixon was an astute party politician , but he had never been able to project an appealing public " image " . |
| 28 | They had not thought of him often in the years between , but he had never been very far from the borders of their hard and wary lives . |
| 29 | Grunte was ancient , but he had always been nice to her . |
| 30 | His body was found very close to it , but he had obviously been blinded by the blizzard . |