Example sentences of "[pron] have be [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 2 | Racing Santander FC , who will stage the match as a benefit for the Spanish PFA , said yesterday : ‘ An England security man has checked our ground but nothing has been decided about segregation or tickets . ’ |
| 3 | While nothing has been decided to date , an exchange exhibition of Library of Congress material remains a possibility : the evolution of the relationship between church and state in Western culture , focusing on the Library of Congress 's Founding Fathers material has been mooted . |
| 4 | Although police believe the schoolgirl was almost certainly murdered , her body was never found and no-one has been prosecuted in connection with the case . |
| 5 | Although police believe Moira was almost certainly murdered , her body was never found and no-one has been prosecuted in connection with the case . |
| 6 | For example , knowing someone has been convicted of theft might influence one 's reactions and attitudes to that person . |
| 7 | I 'd been invited to dinner too , but declined . |
| 8 | ‘ If I 'd been trained in mind-reading rather than riot control , Dexter , I 'd tell you . ’ |
| 9 | ‘ How did you know I 'd been put on probation ? ’ |
| 10 | I knew that from when I 'd gone to watch them play in the past , but I 'd been cured of insomnia for some time now . |
| 11 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 12 | Long after I 'd been smothered in bed |
| 13 | I often thought if I 'd been married to Finn and I 'd had a gun handy , I 'd 've widowed myself more than once . ’ |
| 14 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 15 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 16 | If I had been asked at Christmas whether my home waters of Chew and Blagdon would be full by opening day , the answer would have been an emphatic no . |
| 17 | It seemed to me that the stench of Billingsley 's cigar smoke clung to the boat like the sulphurous reek of the pit , and with it lingered the realisation that I had been twisted into dishonesty as easily as a length of rope could be coiled into hanks . |
| 18 | I had been born on Easter Sunday 21 years earlier and as I went into the water , I thought : ‘ Laddo , you 're going to die on Easter Sunday , too ’ . |
| 19 | The plain fact of the matter , snobbish though it may sound , was that they were both unintelligent and ill-educated in comparison to myself , belonging as they did to a different social class from the one into which I had been co-opted at school . |
| 20 | I was very interested in their answers to my questions , which often seemed to offer a different view of history from the one I had been taught at school . |
| 21 | I had been humiliated in front of my public . |
| 22 | At the beginning of 1981 I had been promoted from Minister of Transport to Secretary of State . |
| 23 | Either I had been put to bed , I thought , as I woke up next morning , in the wee cold room at the top of the house , or my standard drunk-person 's on-board auto-pilot facility was improving with experience . |
| 24 | I must say , something about this small encounter had put me in very good spirits ; the simple kindness I had been thanked for , and the simple kindness I had been offered in return , caused me somehow to feel exceedingly uplifted about the whole enterprise facing me over these coming days . |
| 25 | I then tried to deduce the events of the previous night and discovered some time later that I had been raped by force by XYZ who had been on the mini bus and followed me home . |
| 26 | ‘ I 've been sentenced to death . |
| 27 | Three weeks ago I found a lump in one of my breasts and since then I 've been paralysed with fear . |
| 28 | ‘ I 've been asked to dinner by one of the neighbours . ’ |
| 29 | But I 've been taught to mind my own business , so I wo n't need an answer to that . ’ |
| 30 | Yes , Mr Chairman , I , erm , I , I , I do appreciate that erm , I 've been invited through Committee er , to go through what I do represent er , the building project erm , on behalf of the economic development , because as you all know , I 'm of course on the economic development before , but er , in the past I 've found that that I have er been , shall we say , relieved of my positions on other er , position , erm , unknownst to myself , and of course I have er , actually turned up on these planning functions and been there , and to me in the past , I have always found that if one is going to be missed one must then , one 's either asked if he wishes to continue , if he 's been doing his job properly , if he does n't do his job properly then it 's only right to replace him . |