Example sentences of "[pron] [noun pl] have [been] [adv] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The previous X-ray of my lungs had been just before my operation in March . |
| 2 | He linked the freedom of the foreign-owned press in Africa to the general principle of press freedom , but remarked that its effects had been far from encouraging : the press had done things that he personally was very unhappy about . |
| 3 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 4 | It 's believed their bodies had been there for some time . |
| 5 | On the way in the train earlier she had pictured her meeting with Penry over and over again , but none of her imaginings had been remotely like the reality . |
| 6 | Isolated press reports at the time had noted that most of these forces were from the Nuer tribe , and their victims had been mainly from the Dinka tribe , of which Garang was a member . |
| 7 | But in recent years his plays have been more about the paradoxical nature of dissidence itself : the emotional turbulence of the authority given the individual as a public spokesman , and about the fact that one of the worst features of any totalitarian system is the need to conform to other people 's expectations . |