Example sentences of "have [been] [verb] in a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In a default action where the plaintiff 's claim is amended by adding or substituting a claim which could not have been made in a default action , the action continues as if it had been commenced as a fixed date action ( Ord 15 , r 2(2) ) . |
| 2 | Every order made in such a cause or matter by an English court , is an order in a criminal cause or matter , even though the order , taken by itself , is neutral in character and might equally have been made in a cause or matter which is not criminal . |
| 3 | ‘ The person who put this together must have been living in a box for the last 10 years . ’ |
| 4 | The feasible political choices confronting Labour could doubtless have been handled in a way which would have produced greater benefit for working people , and lost Labour less active support . |
| 5 | Baffled , he scratched his greasy white hair and wondered what it could be and why it should have been stored in a beer keg . |
| 6 | ’ It would n't be an overstatement to say we 've carried near on a hundred tons of material of one sort or another up this driveway to our house , whereas it could have been done in a couple of days with permission to drive up . ’ |
| 7 | Ours was now a multiple reality and our structural ambivalence can be illustrated by one example when one of the squad created a blazer badge in heraldic style ( although we could never have been seen in a blazer at this time when faded denim was the order of the day ) . |
| 8 | A MUM today hugged the new-born baby she feared might might have been injured in a hit and run car crash when she was eight and a half months pregnant . |
| 9 | I turned my head away quickly , but I had had time to take in another feature — his rather sharp , small nose that looked as if it might have been broken in a boxing match . |
| 10 | In repose Biff 's arm hung in mid-air ; he might have been recuperating in a wing of the Apothacarion with his limb in traction … |
| 11 | ‘ They said I should have been killed in a crash ’ |
| 12 | The old King might have been killed in a plane crash ! |
| 13 | Agitation may have been couched in a vocabulary which spoke of national morality , but it was clear who were being singled out as the recipients of purity action . |
| 14 | The doctor said the injury could have been caused in a number of ways and though the soldier was limping he was ‘ surprised that such a minor injury would cause a limp . ’ |
| 15 | A Bible passage that I sometimes imagine might have been set in a school playground ( or assembly hall ) is found in Matthew 9:37–38 . |
| 16 | Police say the dog could have been used in a fight or dumped by an uncaring owner who could not afford to have the animal registered under dangerous dog legislation . |
| 17 | In this treatment the vessel would have been wrapped in a zinc foil , placed in a solution of weak acid and then an electric current applied . |
| 18 | Filmer 's own thoughts must anyway have been thrown in a tangle . |
| 19 | It might have been shouted in a dream . |
| 20 | So , let's think about our objectives , first of all an objective , I might have come to Abbey Life to make money , last year , I might have been working in a factory , earning fifteen , twelve , fifteen thousand a year , and I might make my objective in my first year with Abbey Life to earn sixty thousand pounds . |
| 21 | The bomb may have been concealed in a bouquet of flowers . |
| 22 | And like sheep they had eventually been ridden down by soldiers as her husband had been ridden down at Peterloo , the crowd dispersed and then hunted over the open fields like running hares , so that of Luke 's companions one had crawled into a hedge with a leg that might have been mangled in a bear trap and had bled t death there ; two or three others had taken refuge in haystacks and barns ; two had been arrested and sentenced to hard labour . |
| 23 | They must have been waiting in a car , as neither wore an overcoat and both were suddenly there smack in front of me , blocking the pavement , tantalizingly close to home . |
| 24 | Such metalwork and fabric may have been decorated in a way which conveyed meaning to the wearer and the viewer , but all of the artefacts whose technology we have considered had , first and foremost a function to their owners . |
| 25 | ‘ All these people could have been married in a registrar 's office , but they want a religious and spiritual dimension to their marriage , which I think is very noble of them . ’ |