Example sentences of "[pers pn] [conj] [pers pn] have been [verb] " in BNC.
Next page| No | Sentence |
|---|---|
| 1 | But there were also cases which held that the applicant for mandamus had to show that some legal right of his or hers had been infringed by the challenged decision . |
| 2 | The strongest argument we 've got is that has got a driving record worse than yours and he has been taken on despite that record . |
| 3 | It was a favourite gambit of his and I had been caught before ; but never so successfully as now . |
| 4 | If the work is commissioned by a PR consultant , the — copyright is his unless it has been arranged that it should be assigned to the client . |
| 5 | When the greetings and exclamations were over , they told me that they had been staying on Mull for a few days , and had just arrived on Moila , and were putting up at the post office with Mrs McDougall . |
| 6 | Although I have great respect for W. 's consultant and for the dedication of the staff , it seems to me that they have been manoeuvred into a position from which a change is necessary , even if it is a change that carries the risk of interpretation by W. as ‘ yet another adult rejection and failure . ’ |
| 7 | Cllr Murphy told The Scotsman : ‘ Councillors have told me that they have been put under pressure when short-leeting . ’ |
| 8 | Erm it seems to me that we 've been talking about capturing elephants but er is it really a Trojan horse ? |
| 9 | So these wee things I I knew and er my staff soon found you see that well they just had to go along and do the job as it should be done , you see , and they were no good at kidding me that it had been done , for I used to examine everything that was done you see . |
| 10 | Very occasionally she would come and tell me that it had been left so immaculate that she 'd had almost nothing to do and instead would remove some of the dust in the melin for us . |
| 11 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 12 | A shod note accompanied the card , informing me that it had been found on Oberleutnant Bauer 's body . |
| 13 | Maybe the day will come when Mark will ring me from the museum and tell me that it 's been decided that I must add to the catalogue the pedigree of the wrapping or package in question : Ice lolly wrapper ‘ Captain Marvel ’ , Walls , 1985 , found , Whitechapel Road , EC , condition : poor . |
| 14 | My running told me that I had been wasting my time all those years , but I did n't regret that too much . |
| 15 | She said : ‘ Claire did not show me the power of attorney … nor did she tell me that I had been made Michael 's attorney . ’ |
| 16 | But I do not mean to suggest either , he wrote , that it was all waiting and no doing , all sitting and no action , for though it was impossible to tell when the beginning would come , indeed , he wrote , there could not have been a real beginning if it had been possible to tell , for if it had been possible to tell that would have meant that there had already been a beginning , no , wrote Harsnet ( typed Goldberg ) , occasionally things were done , work was begun , though it was soon abandoned , it added up to nothing , it only showed me that I had been mistaken in thinking that I had indeed started . |
| 17 | My billetor Mrs Webster told me that she had been employed there before her marriage and ‘ printed registered envelopes in two sizes for ten years , and liked the work ’ . |
| 18 | Then a week later my wife told me that she 'd been abused by her brother . |
| 19 | When Ken called by later , he told me that he 'd been commanded to show me the sights the following afternoon . |
| 20 | He told me that he had been asking for them , to no avail . |
| 21 | One particularly nasty German television journalist informed me that he had been waiting for a month and if anyone was getting near Ortega , it was him . |
| 22 | Huston , however , told me that he had been persuaded to accept the job of directing the film before the script had been completed . |
| 23 | Later he confessed to me that he had been feeling a certain unease in the region of the colon ; when I asked him why on earth he had n't told me , he answered , ‘ I 'd never discuss my plumbing with ladies ! ’ |
| 24 | Well obviously the sad reality of the thing does n't come home to , to our countrymen and a man comes up last week and tells me that he 's been paid off by the Daily Record he 's been working for them for thirty five years and he asked what how much pension will he have and says that he 's getting four years pension . |
| 25 | What 's more — ’ he turned to glare at Sophie ‘ — you did n't inform me that you had been called in . |
| 26 | ‘ After your arrival I received another anonymous letter , informing me that you had been planted by my enemies . |
| 27 | Rounding up the elephants and trying to count them was a hellish job , much more difficult than anyone had foreseen because of the vast area , the confusing vegetation and terrain , and the impossibility of labelling the beasts or keeping track of them once they had been found and counted once . |
| 28 | For this reason , it is often much more effective to press the different parts of the spray individually and then reconstruct them once they have been pressed . |
| 29 | Multiple choices are learned and any one of them can be followed — as for example incest versus outbreeding — but there is an innate predisposition to learn certain ones in preference to others , or else to choose them once they have been acquired . |
| 30 | As they approached the castle of Ballingolin , a figure on the south tower raised a hand to indicate to them that they had been seen and recognized . |