Example sentences of "[conj] [pers pn] have been [vb pp] [v-ing] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Lalande wrote of him in 1763 : ‘ Sisson has been several times in prison for failing to pay his workmen [ of whom Jesse Ramsden , q.v. , was one ] ; he starts many things and finishes nothing : he takes his instruments to the pawnbroker , where they have been seen selling for a tenth of their value . |
| 2 | He would assume that I had been detained scrubbing the floors of the kitchens at Grindlewood Park . |
| 3 | I feel that somewhere over my head is hanging some kind of spirituality-ometer , and that I have been found wanting . |
| 4 | During a heresy trial in 1429 , a deposition against Margery Baxter , a wright 's wife from Martham in Norfolk , stated that she had been seen boiling unam peciam de Baken on the Saturday after Ash Wednesday . |
| 5 | Magistrates at Bootle decided that the dog should be released from RSPCA kennels and returned to her owners in Lydiate , Merseyside , despite the fact that she had been found wandering outside her home without a muzzle . |
| 6 | Vessels from the cemeteries in north-east England , Baston and Elsham ( Lincolnshire ) , and Sancton ( East Yorkshire ) were found to have fabrics specific to the respective cemeteries , although they had been decorated using the same set of dies . |
| 7 | Powerhouse walked out after complaining that they had been kept waiting for 40 minutes for the court and Components Bureau claimed the points by default and then appealed unsuccessfully against the Scottish Association 's decision to rearrange the fixture . |
| 8 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 9 | Colt knew that the target was a thief , that he had been observed entering the Syrian Embassy when that Embassy was under regular Iraqi surveillance . |
| 10 | If I 'd been seen popping in and out of Ramillies Drive , tongues would inevitably have begun to wag . |
| 11 | She smiled back then looked away quickly as if she had been caught doing something wrong . |
| 12 | He had looked into the other world , and he had been caught peering through . |
| 13 | When the details of a DC have been finalised and it has been submitted using option 2.1.3 , its state changes from CREATED to PROPOSED . |
| 14 | Erm just to say that , just to confirm the note sent round that erm we will only pay for any photographic services by Intercity East Coast if it has been procured using a task request form in accordance with the same way we procure any other internal B R er service . |
| 15 | Yeah , but she 's been caught doing it as well . |
| 16 | Guilcher ( 1958 ) quotes salinities of 27 40 parts per thousand as being required for corals , but they have been observed flourishing in the Persian Gulf with salinity as high as 48 per thousand . |
| 17 | The spotted eagle owl is usually more an inhabitant of open country than is the Verreaux eagle owl , but it has been recorded nesting at the bottom of a 9 m shaft in a cave , well into the twilight zone ( Brain , 1981 ) . |
| 18 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 19 | He had been held , in the first place , because he had been caught carrying out what must now appear an ill-judged and irresponsible foray . |
| 20 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 21 | She remembered Rob , the eldest boy , named after her mama 's father who had died in Arizona , saying to her one day , after she had been caught riding bareback at her uncle Orrin 's ranch in Wyoming , ‘ What a pity you were n't a boy , Sally-Anne ; we could have had such fun together . ’ |
| 22 | And he said there were a number of errors in the supervision of Moore after he had been discovered firing shots over the grave of a dead colleague . |
| 23 | Feeling stupidly embarrassed , as though she 'd been caught doing something she should n't , she looked jerkily away . |
| 24 | We read and experimented until we could stride into builders ' suppliers and ask for one-way cistern inlet valves , 1.5 mm triplecore insulated or three-inch steel angle brackets , just as though we had been born knowing all about it , like men ! |
| 25 | The House of Detention held dangerous men behind bars , some of them Irish , and she remembered how her father had been threatened with it when he 'd been caught causing trouble . |
| 26 | I barely remembered my uncle , as he had been killed rock-climbing when Dickie was a few months old . |