Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] in [num] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 2 | When she finally reached the scribbling engine , she felt as if she had been broken in two and glued back together again all wrong . |
| 3 | She had been born in 1688 in Marston St. Lawrence , and had married Richard Jennens of Mollington , Oxfordshire , in 1708 [ Baker , 1 , 720 ] . |
| 4 | The remains of the king and his father had been removed on Aug. 16 from Burg Hohenzollern at Hechingen , near Stuttgart , where they had been placed in 1952 — having been recovered from Nazi hands during the last days of the Second World War . |
| 5 | After indifferent form in the early games , the first Test at Sabina Park , where four years earlier they had been annihilated in three days , was upon them . |
| 6 | At a time when potential reformers included senior officials and members of the royal family , it was to be expected that educated people outside the government would emerge from the bunker to which they had been relegated in 1848 . |
| 7 | On 30 March 1959 the remains of José Antonio Primo de Rivera were transported from the basilica of El Escorial , where they had been buried in 1939 , for reinterment in the Church of the Holy Cross of the Valley of the Fallen . |
| 8 | They had been stolen in 1907 causing both the British and Irish authorities much embarrassment , especially since they had vanished on the eve of a royal visit . |
| 9 | They have been seen in 1981 and 1990/91 . |
| 10 | 2.5 Whilst the foregoing factors have created the need for more language teachers — teachers , moreover , who have been trained to cope with new challenges — the supply has been falling , to the point where they have been labelled in one study ‘ an endangered species ’ . |
| 11 | But Mr Krueger 's unorthodox manner ( by Texas standards ) does not bode well : he has been defeated in two previous races for the Senate , and was rumoured to have been chosen to fill the empty seat only after three previous choices had been rejected by special interests . |
| 12 | Originally presented in terms of partial equilibrium analysis , it has been extended in two principal directions . |
| 13 | The WGMS could , in short , be adopted in the United Kingdom in full confidence that insignificant hiccups in the form of excess seats would be no more frequent than they are in the Federal Republic , where it has been tested in eleven general elections and not found wanting . |
| 14 | If Oman today is a relaxed and comfortable nation , it is because it has been led in 21 years from medieval seclusion to modern success . |
| 15 | In fact , like the many German towns vying with one another in the Eighties , Nîmes decided on the building before it even had a collection to put into it , and since 1984 it has been buying in three areas with assistance from funds specially designated by the State for regional museums to collect contemporary works : French art from 1960 to 1990 , with the Nouveau Réalisme and Figuration Libre via the Support-Surface movement ; the Mediterranean scene , with art from southern France , Spain and Italy , with Arte Povera and the Transavanguardia , and represented by artists such as Jose Maria Sicilia , Miquel Barcelo , Susanna Solano , Janis Kounellis , Mario Merz , Giuseppe Penone and Enzo Cucchi ; a taste of English and German tendencies , with Richard Long , Hamish Fulton , Gerhard Richter , Imi Knoebel , Helmut Dorner and others . |
| 16 | It has been reproduced in millions and has served as the model for metro maps all over the world . |
| 17 | ‘ If it had been built in one go , ’ he claimed , demonstrating with a model and bucket of clay , ‘ it would have fallen over . ’ |
| 18 | It was a large , tall , four storeyed building , on one of the steep hillsides of Highgate ; it had been built in 1720 , but was deceptively flanked by scrappy houses and miscellaneous buildings of mixed and later dates , so that its lonely eminence had an air of somewhat tragic survival . |
| 19 | It had been built in 1876 and consisted of a whole succession of low-roofed , dormer-windowed , gabled buildings . |
| 20 | Subsequently , however , the Moscow correspondent of the daily La Stampa examined the original of the letter , which had been discovered in the KGB archives , and reported that it had been misquoted in 12 places . |
| 21 | It had been painted in 1876 and showed an older and more ethereal poet , his head rising , as is common with Watts 's portraits , from a vague dark column of a body into a spiritual light . |
| 22 | Liberal protests notwithstanding , it had been announced in 1870 that the pope , speaking ex cathedra , is gifted with infallibility when defining doctrines to do with faith and morals . |
| 23 | It had been made in 1942 but had not been shown until the Nazis had been banished from the country . |
| 24 | before that it had been done in eighty one , eighty two , eighty four , eighty six , eighty eight and ninety , so curiously now , it 's it 's missed out several years , |
| 25 | It had been begun in 1928 by Padre Mazzetti , of the Dominican fathers in the Santuario , but had never been finished or occupied up until now . |
| 26 | It felt as if it had been split in two by a cold chisel and someone was grinding the two halves together . |
| 27 | Whereas a majority , 54 per cent , of households in Birmingham would have gained under the poll tax if it had been levied in 1988–9 , only 39 per cent of adults are shown to be gainers . |
| 28 | Built on the banks of the Tyne and opened in 1873 , it had been extended in 1893 until it stood three storeys high , 609 ft. long and 330 ft. wide . |
| 29 | A medieval merchant city , unlike any other in Ireland , it had been founded in 1232 by a Norman knight , Richard de Burgo , at the mouth of the River Corrib , facing the Atlantic Ocean . |
| 30 | SHE CORRESPONDED WITH AN EXPERT ON THE CHURCH , WHO TOLD HER THAT THE CHURCH SHE HAD ‘ SEEN ’ WAS THE CHURCH AS IT HAD BEEN 400 YEARS AGO , BEFORE IT HAD BEEN REBUILT IN 1553 . |