Example sentences of "[pron] have been [adj] in [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 2 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 3 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 4 | But I 'd been interested in old houses long before that . ’ |
| 5 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 6 | ‘ If I had been involved in petty larceny I certainly would n't still be here arguing the point after your abuse ! ’ |
| 7 | I told her that I had been involved in one of the IRA attacks when I had been blown up in the Brighton Bomb , and that I had friends and colleagues who had been badly hurt or killed . |
| 8 | I had been involved in another timeslip , and this was a day in late August . |
| 9 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 10 | I 've been involved in direct mail ever since my first days with the Billy Graham Organisation in the early sixties . |
| 11 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 12 | Erm , and I 've been involved in lengthy discussion on behalf of certain people in the trade , one of the largest er , chains of superstores , do-it-yourself superstores . |
| 13 | But I 've been stuck in this line for twenty years , and I reckon I 'll be stuck in it when I drop . ’ |
| 14 | I have been involved in many such courses and found them useful . |
| 15 | I have been involved in many cases over the years , but nothing like this one . |
| 16 | I have been involved in local politics for several years and I am running in South Ward for the second time . |
| 17 | He said : ‘ I have been involved in detailed talks with Michael Knighton for several days . |
| 18 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 19 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 20 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 21 | But I have been lucky in all sorts of things . |
| 22 | There is no space here to examine this issue in detail , but it is at least a little odd that the work of such pragmatic theorists as Grice , Horn , Levinson and Sperber and Wilson , which has been successful in many areas and which has also cast serious doubt on speech-act-based approaches , is never mentioned in a book which explicitly claims the superiority of Austinian approaches . |
| 23 | The plan seeks in part to reverse centuries of reclamation of low-lying land for agriculture , which has been successful in increasing crop yields but has been accompanied by a deterioration in the natural environment . |
| 24 | Boro began with a 4–5–1 formation which has been successful in recent away games . |
| 25 | This is a methodological approach which has been productive in other studies of innovative learning disability services ( Felce et al. , 1986 ; Rawlings , 1985 ) . |
| 26 | By the end of the American war its establishment , which had been 2,738 in 1714 , had risen to 4,910 — twice as large as the rest of the financial administration . |
| 27 | British academic institutions which had been involved in satisfying Elena Ceauşescu 's desire for recognition by her colleagues handled their embarrassment with little aplomb after Christmas 1989 . |
| 28 | Archie Turnbull took early retirement in 1987 , suggesting as his successor Martin Spencer , then running Manchester University Press , which had been involved in several successful collaborative ventures with EUP . |
| 29 | Although several of the coup leaders were arrested many others escaped , including Gregorio " Gringo " Honasan , a key member of the Reform the Armed Forces Movement ( RAM ) , one of the clandestine right-wing organizations within the military which had been involved in repeated coup attempts against Aquino . |
| 30 | Polish independence , which had been unthinkable in 1916 , was now a fact . |