Example sentences of "[pers pn] have [be] [vb pp] in [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 3 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 4 | I did put the landing light on , though , as I 'd been ambushed in the dark on those stairs before , barely escaping with my life . |
| 5 | Perhaps she had ; but there was nothing mad about the composed face I 'd been shown in the portrait and the photograph , only an infinity of patience . |
| 6 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 7 | Of course , I had no idea whether these ladies were right or wrong , but the revelation of fragments of past lives helped me come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . |
| 8 | ‘ The revelation of these fragments of past lives helped me to come to terms with my true nature , and to understand why I had been troubled in the past . ’ |
| 9 | It felt like I had been kicked in the chest by a mule ’ . |
| 10 | I loved maths when I was at school , but I had been taught in a very formal way . |
| 11 | I remember thinking that if I had been trapped in the car , the firemen would not have reached me in time . |
| 12 | I felt as though I had been reincarnated in the same lifetime . |
| 13 | My first appearance had been in the Junior Indoor Championships the previous year , when I had been eliminated in the heats . |
| 14 | It was as though I had been caught in a wild torrent of a rampaging river . |
| 15 | I had been left in no doubt that any other way of handling John 's case might endanger his life . |
| 16 | stuff keep the half way up my back its all padding and stuff and I 've rolled over , as I 've rolled over there 's been another one it has gone off , it felt like I 've been kicked in the back by somebody really having a go at me , it threw me and even with all that I had a like that so there not , there not kiddy toys . |
| 17 | Please recall how I 've been penned in a sanctum on a planet for most of my days . |
| 18 | Having dared , with one or two others , to open the door , I feel I 've been trampled in the rush and I 'm now standing up and waving a little flag saying , ‘ No , no , this is where we should be . ' |
| 19 | ‘ I 've been stabbed in the back . ’ |
| 20 | Gwen will be thinking I 've been put in a dungeon . |
| 21 | I 've been criticised in the past for being too close to the players , but when you 're coaching you have to have an empathy , you have to understand their worries and their weaknesses . |
| 22 | I have been employed in the hotel and catering industry for 12 years . |
| 23 | Although I have been billed as a " computer man " — I have been employed in the computer marketing and services side of IBM for 17 years — for over half this time I have been a line manager . |
| 24 | ‘ I am dependent on people with whom I have been associated in the past inviting me and I must say they could not have been more gracious . ’ |
| 25 | She has been treated in the Royal Alexandra Hospital , Brighton . |
| 26 | But it could be argued that she has been placed in a high turn-over establishment because she possesses an authoritarian style of leadership . |
| 27 | But local mum Carol Lambird says she has been locked in a wrangle with Durham County Council for the last two years after her son Christopher was diagnosed as dyslexic . |
| 28 | Alina said she 'd been raised in the country . |
| 29 | She 'd been reserved in a way which suggested that she might be strong-willed but was making an effort to hide it or keep it in check . |
| 30 | If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine . |