Example sentences of "and [adv] he [verb] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Sergei 's bed had n't been slept in , and presumably he 'd been to bed with Masha . |
| 2 | Your son-in-law has been sleeping with this girl at work for the best part of 11 years and presumably he 's been having his conjugals in the matrimonial bed , too . |
| 3 | He had left the army as a major , but the clerks in the Horse Guards had determined that his majority was only brevet rank , not regimental , and so he had been forced to accept a lieutenant 's pension . |
| 4 | A Ewe owned by farmer John Davies has lost a lamb during birth and so he 's been put in touch with Mrs Hunter Blair by the farmers union . |
| 5 | ‘ Pion is only fourteen months old and already he has been to Alaska . ’ |
| 6 | Cowan , top scorer in his three seasons at Portadown , is out of contract in the summer — and already he has been linked with Linfield . |
| 7 | Wheat and barley he knew , and once he had been in a field of turnips . |
| 8 | And once he had been at Oxford , she said . |
| 9 | Mr Bush , a former US diplomat in Beijing , has countered by hinting that when his traducers were fully acquainted with the facts , his actions would be justified — and typically he has been angered by the ‘ personal ’ nature of the criticism . |
| 10 | Two days earlier he had been driving troop carriers at Kuchino , one of the KGB 's training centres outside Moscow , and now he 'd been asked to drive for General Benin no less . |
| 11 | It was a place he rarely went , and now he had been twice in twenty-four hours ; last night with Benny , and tonight because he was so late and fussed getting back from his useless journey to Dublin . |
| 12 | Not once , but six separate times … and now he had been warned off for good . |
| 13 | And now he had been made to pay for what he had done . |
| 14 | Where the wings of pain had dropped him , there had miraculously been infinite but unblinding light , a great strenuous joy that was somehow calm , like a crystal bowl that you do not drink out of , and now he had been floated back to the comfortable shore of his cool clean bed . |
| 15 | ‘ He says it 's because he volunteered when he was too young and now he 's been pestering them , but I 've been pestering all three services and got nowhere . ’ |
| 16 | ‘ It was Guido 's arch-rival who he 's beaten into second place twice … he 's the one who took it , and now he 's been arrested . ’ |
| 17 | And now he has been put down , made to seem anti-Semitic , by a probable anti-Semite . |
| 18 | ‘ You can imagine what a spell in the Army would have meant for someone who values his fingers as a pianist , so when I came back home I got in touch with some people and now he has been booked for a number of festivals , ’ Alan tells me . |
| 19 | The smaller man was hit first , and then the taller man had seemed to move across to him , and then he had been hit . |
| 20 | Well he he takes the car to school , but , and it , sorry takes the car to work and before he 's bringing the car home and then he 's been going to school on his bike . |
| 21 | Yeah well two of mine did go in , one 's gone out into the fire service and the other one has stayed in and he 's got , he , he 's been doing very well , he 's been in a big big comprehensive school up in Runcorn , and then he 's been seconded to Cheshire County to the advisory service for a couple of years and so , hello ! |
| 22 | She 'd gone down to the seashore with the dogs and there he 'd been , following her . |
| 23 | And indeed he has been nominated as the centrists ' candidate in the presidential election due in 1996 ( but likely to be held earlier ) . |
| 24 | Twice Yin Tsu had thought to link his line with kings , and twice he had been denied that honour . |
| 25 | He spent money that he had n't got and twice he 'd been in a duel . |
| 26 | Now , he finds people are beginning to be more open about their sexuality , and consequently he has been promoting the activities of the centre for sexual problems in Istanbul . |
| 27 | She stared up at him , touched to tears by his thoughtfulness , he had come into her life such a short time ago and yet he had been so good to her , so strong and kind . |
| 28 | And yet he had been thorough , efficient , and ruthless in his investigation , not drawing the line at torture to extract information where he thought it might be withheld . |
| 29 | My Lord the plaintiff 's case , as you can appreciate , is that Mr had very clearly , on several occasions in mid October , er requested a way out of this contract there was a way out er under the terms of the contract by service of special notice to complete erm and yet he had been told that there was no way that they could withdraw from the contract . |
| 30 | Augustus Aikhomu , then Chief of General Staff , the actions of Maina since his appointment in December 1989 , had not been " in consonance with the goals and objectives of this administration and accordingly he has been removed " . |