Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [adj] in [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 2 | I 'd been welcome in that house for as long as you had-longer , because you were away and I just about lived there . |
| 3 | I had been involved in another timeslip , and this was a day in late August . |
| 4 | But by now I was crazed with the idea of doing something for this woman that retained some shred of playfulness to it , so she could think to herself : ‘ All in fun , all in fun ’ , and yet which conveyed the full force of the idea that I had been alone in that office that weekend with a huge erection thinking of her . |
| 5 | well okay well just to wind up , I mean I 've been involved in this and people within the R Y A and the office for a good six months now and we fell well down the line , the reality is hardly any courses have started yet and there 's hardly any youngsters been on the water . |
| 6 | But I 've been stuck in this line for twenty years , and I reckon I 'll be stuck in it when I drop . ’ |
| 7 | I have been involved in many such courses and found them useful . |
| 8 | I have been involved in many cases over the years , but nothing like this one . |
| 9 | Incidentally , Bob and I have been involved in some hospital visiting lately , and were surprised to find that more than half the patients in the ward had been taken ill on holiday , and consequently felt doubly cut off . |
| 10 | " Perhaps I have been lax in such matters , but that state of affairs can be remedied . |
| 11 | This fiction has various names : ‘ private eye fiction ’ , ‘ hardboiled fiction ’ which is a way of describing its style , and erm I have been interested in this for some time , partly trying to assess the reasons why such fiction occurred in America as a complete breakaway from the old kind of detective fiction which we all know about , the country house murder , why erm the figure of the private detective becomes so important in this kind of fiction between the wars , and what the relationship of this sort of fiction is to not merely other kinds of American fiction during that period but to more abiding American themes , particularly erm themes of individualism and toughness . |
| 12 | But I have been lucky in all sorts of things . |
| 13 | But what if she 'd been wrong in that — what if there were other things he wanted to do ? |
| 14 | But can you honestly say you 've been cold in this house ? |
| 15 | If you have been involved in any occult activities in the past then DO N'T PANIC , just read on . |
| 16 | While I 've been out in the fresh air enjoying myself she 's been stuck in this featureless boarding house , wondering if I 'll ever come back . |
| 17 | We 've been lucky in that companies and organisations have been supportive of our appeal . |
| 18 | ‘ IN APRIL 1992 , a researcher from the BBC 's dramatised documentary programme ‘ 999 ’ contacted our Community Education Department asking if we had been involved in any unusual incident where rescues had been carried out . |
| 19 | ‘ We have been involved in such a partnership for some years now and the fact that many governors have been accompanied by their head teachers today is an indication of how successful it has been , ’ he added . |
| 20 | ‘ You know , Boyo , this is the start of our fifth day here in Normandy and we have been stuck in these bloody slit trenches having all kinds of shit thrown at us . |
| 21 | The atmosphere with the actual returnees themselves is one of concern and apprehension I guess , because they 're concerned that they 've been involved in this , this crisis and they 're not quite sure what 's happening , and they are er not really being told by everybody , you know , there 's just too many people to make it very clear where they 're all going and when they 're all going . |
| 22 | Since then they had been awkward in each other 's company and everything seemed to have gone wrong . |
| 23 | He did not say whether they had been involved in any of the English advice or whether they were advising on the valuations as going concerns as bus stations or advising on the development values . |
| 24 | The three alleged leaders arrested were Moslem Brotherhood members , although their lawyer on March 15 denied that they had been involved in any type of illegal activity . |
| 25 | The performance of students was also examined with regard to whether or not they had been involved in some type of formal study during the two years prior to entry to the DipHE . |
| 26 | Young , innocent , they had been malleable in those hands which were so practised in making something valuable out of raw or damaged material . |
| 27 | During the six years since he joined the company , he has been involved in many of the major changes that have taken place . |
| 28 | Hard working Ted says he does n't worry that his face is n't that well known even though he has been involved in most light entertainment shows on the box . |
| 29 | He has been involved in several research projects relating to the spatial impacts of industrial organisation and change within the UK and EC . |
| 30 | He has been consistent in all his 33 appearances in which he has scored six goals . ’ |