Example sentences of "but he [verb] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Of Korean communists associated with Russia , the best known was Kim Il Sung but he had also been involved with the CCP . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | But he had barely been gone for an hour when there came the signal that Thorfinn had been waiting for . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | But he had only been away for three days . |
| 6 | His wish had been granted , but he had only been given more time to experience cruel and unabated pain . |
| 7 | His nanny had scolded him over and over , but he had never been able to stop . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | " Tricky Dick " Nixon was an astute party politician , but he had never been able to project an appealing public " image " . |
| 11 | 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 . |
| 12 | Grunte was ancient , but he had always been nice to her . |
| 13 | His body was found very close to it , but he had obviously been blinded by the blizzard . |
| 14 | But he had obviously been right about Damian Flint . |
| 15 | Scott could n't see the name painted along one side of it but he 'd already been told it was called The Abbott . |
| 16 | The protestors turned up in force to confront the man , but he 'd already been and gone . |
| 17 | I think it was really because Paul felt that everything was going really well with the partnership board , and he 'd been erm putting a lot of work in with people like erm from Scarborough , and John and er other people who are on the board , but he 'd rather been neglecting building up a really good working relationship with N Y T E C. |
| 18 | ‘ Of diphtheria , but he 'd never been strong . |
| 19 | He said ‘ Yes , Ernest , but he 'd always been known as Johnny Walker ’ . |
| 20 | But he 'd only been inside the place a few minutes . |
| 21 | ‘ When I was manager , I previously told Chief Inspector Dick Hebberd , who used to be in charge of policing at Underhill , about them , but he has since been transferred . |
| 22 | Now Cronenberg has finally realised his long-cherished project of making a movie out of The Naked Lunch ( London cinemas from 24 April ) — but he has already been filming William Burroughs for years . |
| 23 | He may need to do all this , and to ventilate his fears of a future without her ; but he has probably been told since he was three years old that ‘ boys do n't cry ’ , and that men must always show courage and maintain the stiff upper lip , so he may deny himself the relief of lowering his defences and ‘ letting go ’ which society expects the widow to do quite naturally . |
| 24 | But he has also been careful to repudiate that facile misreading of deconstruction — prevalent among literary critics — which thinks to turn the tables on philosophy by proclaiming that ‘ all concepts are metaphors ’ , or that philosophic truth-claims are really metaphorical through and through . |
| 25 | Enlightenment man has undoubtedly been a man of power , but he has also been a barbarian . |
| 26 | Joey does n't compete in the short circuit section of the championship in which King has excelled but he has generally been in command between the hedges and today it looked like the same old story when he took the lead after the first lap . |
| 27 | Poliakoff had his first playwrighting success at the age of 19 but he has always been , to put it gently , a more grown-up dramatist than many of the pack of hairy , scary stage writers whose careers coincide with his . |
| 28 | Mikhail Budyko , the most revered figure of Soviet climatology , has never been noted as a cold war warrior , but he has always been aware of the limitations imposed on the Soviet Union by its climate . |
| 29 | Hoffman 's face has never been very expressive ( sometimes his rabbit stare makes me think that the great Maureen Stapleton has spawned an emotionally retarded.son ) , but he has always been able to get our empathy . ’ |
| 30 | ‘ When we married 26 years ago I never realised it would be to a millionaire , but he has always been lucky . |