Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Each of them has been transformed into a breathtaking beauty ! |
| 5 | You see I 've been entrusted with the task of getting him safely back to the Reich and I 've little more than three weeks to do it in . ’ |
| 6 | I did n't need a pee because I 'd been pissing on the Poles during the day , infecting them with my scent and power . |
| 7 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 8 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 9 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 10 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 11 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 12 | Ever since I started consultancy work in politics , I 'd been pushing for the use of this simple invention — a British one — but it was n't until after President Reagan used it in his address to the Houses of Parliament that our politicians felt it was worthy of notice . |
| 13 | ‘ Actually , I 'd been hanging around the street for quite some time . |
| 14 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 15 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 16 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 17 | Equally the use of ebony seemed a good choice ; I 'd been looking for an excuse to make something in ebony for ages , anyway ! |
| 18 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 19 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 20 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 21 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 22 | ‘ I feel as though I 'd been living under an anaesthetic for years and years . ’ |
| 23 | But of course , th , I 'd been living at The Haven then , next to the butcher 's shop . |
| 24 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 25 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 26 | 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 . |
| 27 | Now I 'd also in this time rung up the er forwarding address in Manchester , rung up the telephone number I 'd been given of the forwarding address . |
| 28 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 29 | ‘ Before I burst through that door , I 'd been listening at the window — I distinctly recall that he was refusing to say anything really damning . |
| 30 | and Peter came in the morning , I never thought anything I 'd been listening to the radio , I heard there was a big accident on the road , a car accident |