Example sentences of "[pos pn] [noun] have be [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | JOHN Armstrong 's paintings , ‘ built up of remembered things which in my case have been miscalled surrealist ’ , have a poetic appeal which often beats Dali , Magritte et al at their own game . |
| 2 | I 'd been in and out of hospitals , where my veins had been pumped full of glucose because I 'd refused to eat . |
| 3 | My husband has been practising dying for years . |
| 4 | As I recall , I had conveyed a plea to Miss Kenton for assistance — via a messenger , naturally — and had left M. Dupont sitting in the billiard room awaiting his nurse , when the first footman had come hurrying down the staircase in some distress to inform me that my father had been taken ill upstairs . |
| 5 | But the Escort did n't stop , it came on until it blocked the road completely and before I could react , my door had been pulled open and a warrant card thrust in my face . |
| 6 | listen to this , I 'm becoming increasingly aware that my landlady 's been making sexual passes at me , I did n't take them seriously until she climbed in the shower with me |
| 7 | " She 's just told me her sister has been taken ill and she has to go and look after her . |
| 8 | Their throats had been slashed open and their bodies stripped naked . |
| 9 | Her heart had been beating fast and her hands were shaking , but as he kissed her and his body pressed close against hers , the length of his body hard against hers , those signs of fear gradually ceased and she grew weak and curiously fluid in his arms . |
| 10 | Lately however , many of its opponents have been getting used to the idea . |
| 11 | Not for the first time this season their defence had been found wanting and Oldham exploited the weaknesses to the full , owing a special debt to the inspiration and tireless running of Henry and Milligan . |
| 12 | ‘ Did n't you say her handbag had been torn open , the contents gone except for the photo in a zipped pocket ? ’ |
| 13 | There was , however , an insidious corollary to the belief that God might intervene to save His chosen people and prolong the lives of deserving individuals ; it was that where He did not intervene to save life , those who lost their lives had been found unworthy . |
| 14 | For Angela Allen had to abandon her vigil at the bedside of 10-month-old Laura in a Birmingham hospital to return to her St Helens home where her husband had been found dead in bed . |
| 15 | The wife of one says her husband has been denied proper access to lawyers and medical care . |
| 16 | But not all of her fame has been achieved submerged . |
| 17 | Its provision could no longer be ignored by government and left wholly to private charity , particularly as legislation had made public funds available for the education of hearing children from 1832 , and their education had been made compulsory by law in 1876 . |
| 18 | All of its provisions had been upheld other than that relating to spousal notification which was struck down by two votes to one . |
| 19 | Somalia said that its forces had been pursuing anti-government rebels . |
| 20 | Their firm had been given short shrift and was passed from one office to the next . |
| 21 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 22 | Essentially their contribution has been to provide co-operative networks for the exchange of teaching material , experience and ideas . |
| 23 | Her hopes had been lifted high ; now she felt numb . |
| 24 | His sandals had been scraped clean but they still looked pretty dingy . |
| 25 | The author knows ( even if Akhsharumov has to remind him ) that the natural man in his hero has been laid low by the combined psychic onset of crime and punishment . |
| 26 | When Kalchu came back his head had been shaved bald except for a short black tuft that arched out from the crown and drooped down behind . |
| 27 | Riven examined his leg and found that his boot had been ripped open like paper , but that his calf was only scratched . |
| 28 | He was pleased in a way that his advice had been proved good , but he did n't like the thought that a woman was catching up with him . |
| 29 | He said : ‘ Colin and his staff have been kept busy in Peterhead and Aberdeen , using our office at 36 Commerce Street as his Aberdeen base . |
| 30 | I asked , anxiously adding that his father had been taken ill . |