Example sentences of "have be [verb] a [adj] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Black , because it had been burned a thousand years ago ; it still showed the shape of the face impressed upon it . |
| 32 | He had been arrested a few hours after a friendly between Rangers and Cowdenbeath and appeared in police records under his full title James Curran Baxter . |
| 33 | She was born when they had been married a few years . |
| 34 | It was identified as such only a short while after Delta Cephei itself , and if it had been found a few months earlier the short-period stars would probably have been known as Aquilids rather than Cepheids . |
| 35 | And that 's what upset us most about these people going back to work , the fact that a meeting had been taken a few months before in which everybody had voted for us to get the sack , and then all of a sudden they had been threatened and no vote was taken on whether we should stay out or go back , and they just dribbled back to , that really knocked us I think . |
| 36 | The Factory Whistle had been republished a few days before , and beside her Viola kept the pile of six copies sent her by the publishers , with its Lowry-ish cover of tall chimneys and matchstick men . |
| 37 | The extent to which the courts could become involved in the politics of such disputes had been shown a few years earlier when Lord Cameron presided over an enquiry into a dispute on London building sites . |
| 38 | The opposition Conservative Party elected Kaci Kullmann Five as party chair and John Bernander as deputy on April 20 ; Anne Enger Lahnstein had been chosen a few weeks earlier as leader of the agrarian Centre Party . |
| 39 | Support for this theory , of an unexpected kind , had been provided a few weeks earlier by network television . |
| 40 | When he got back to London , he could perhaps pretend that he had been spending a few weeks in Hawthornden Castle on one of their writers ' scholarships . |
| 41 | The building of the Henry Ford factory on the Marina had been started a few years before ; and Denis , whose regular walks to Blackrock — solitary now that his father was no longer there to accompany him took him past the site , had watched its growth from the first brick . |
| 42 | Well I think they 're helping us erm possibly if this system had been started a few years ago , then possibly flats complex , would n't have got the bad reputation it has today . |
| 43 | Science had made enormous progress since Jonson 's day ; the Royal Society had been founded a few years before ; a virtuoso was not the same thing as an alchemist . |
| 44 | The idea of light coming only in packets , called quanta , had been introduced a few years earlier by the German physicist Max Planck . |
| 45 | ‘ I 've been hearing a few things about this boy that s come to live at Beech Place . |
| 46 | ‘ Sounds as if you 've been making a few plans , Mr Calder ! ’ |
| 47 | Actually I 've been doing a few things this year when no one has recognised me and nobody knew . |
| 48 | Hmm well you 've been giving a few answers yourself over the last few weeks . |
| 49 | ‘ I feel , ’ he said , ‘ as if I 've been waiting a hundred years for you . ’ |
| 50 | When you 've been having a few beers , and clowning around having a bit of a larf , and then you go onstage and sing earnest , sensitive songs full of emotion and heartbreak and loneliness , do you ever feel like fakes ? |
| 51 | You 'll soon get the hang of it — once you 've been caught a few times you 'll suss out the attack patterns — but until you do , frustration is high . |
| 52 | Well , erm I I have been accosted a few times to do a few things , you know erm like I say , prostitution , they think probably because you 're on your own , everybody else , because one , say one person in the block is one , then you are one as well , you know . |
| 53 | I have been asked a thousand times for the deep cultural explanation of all sorts of profound differences between ‘ us and them ’ in the last few months . |
| 54 | I have been preaching a few times and invitations are coming in , so it is good experience for me . |
| 55 | Corden added : ‘ Tuesday 's result was very disappointing but we have been carrying a few injuries . |
| 56 | They may well feel that they have been offered a few crumbs . |
| 57 | no at the moment all my friends have , have been married a few years erm next time you come and er |
| 58 | ‘ The cup 's been refilled a few times since then , ’ observes Len , ‘ and with some funny stuff . ’ |
| 59 | It 's been used a thousand times already , as I gather the bed makes clear . |