Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [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 | Each week he would sit me on his knee and , under the pretence of asking me about the things I 'd been doing at school , he would squeeze my thighs and waist . |
11 | If I 'd been working at home today I should have put on my old skirt and my old pullover , so as to have something comfortably rough and worn around me . |
12 | 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 . |
13 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
14 | Long after I 'd been smothered in bed |
15 | 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 . ’ |
16 | 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 . |
17 | 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 . |
18 | I had been dealing with trivia but this was different . |
19 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
20 | 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 . |
21 | 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 . |
22 | 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 ’ . |
23 | 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 . |
24 | Er , my experience is slightly different when erm when I had been trying to sort of recover , I did n't , I did n't feel as if I 've get any help from professionals that I approached . |
25 | 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 . |
26 | I had been humiliated in front of my public . |
27 | At the beginning of 1981 I had been promoted from Minister of Transport to Secretary of State . |
28 | 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 . |
29 | 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 . |
30 | The problem came to a crisis after I had been going to evening classes ( Workers ' Educational Association ) , the subject being psychology . |