Example sentences of "[noun pl] of [v-ing] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | A feature of the blades is that several showed traces of having been made from river-worn cobbles . |
| 2 | Another wonderful view was the truck , showing no signs of having been surrounded by angry aluminium workers attempting to tow it away . |
| 3 | At this moment four others sought refuge in my room , crying and writhing in pain , although their garments showed no signs of having been touched by flame . |
| 4 | Apparently one of the reception clerks , a man called Edouard , turned up at work with a black eye and other signs of having been in a good fight . |
| 5 | Some numismatists have confirmed the picture of terminal decay : the Carolingians minted few coins , of which still fewer are said to show signs of having been used . |
| 6 | It confronts ambiguities , including the guilt feelings of having been unfaithful in transient affairs ; casual encounters which now seem a pointless betrayal . |
| 7 | And for other girls in Carlen 's study , the scars of having been in care are more vivid . |
| 8 | These included allegations of having been thrown downstairs , of fascists banging the heads of interrupters on the stone floor , and of protestors having fascist stewards ' fingers rammed up their nostrils . |
| 9 | Even the novelist George Gissing , who was ‘ no friend of the people ’ and who was the most scathing critic of so many aspects of the new popular culture , has his fictional alter ego Henry Ryecroft recalling the pleasures of having been young in London , of the public houses with their ‘ pints of foaming ale ’ and the supper bars with their ‘ sausage and mash ’ , of the theatres where one could ‘ roll and hustle with the throng at the pit-door ’ , and of walking home singing as he went . |
| 10 | Consulting sex manuals might help , but one of the benefits of having been married a number of years should be a deeper understanding of your partner and of what will give pleasure . |
| 11 | According to The Famous Grouse Director , Matthew Gloag , the company 's interest in the next year 's tournament in Edinburgh had been almost a foregone conclusion due to the enormous benefits of having been involved in the 1991 World Cup . |
| 12 | Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage . |
| 13 | Where a road which bears all the marks of having been laid out by the enclosure commissioners makes , at longish intervals , a sudden right-angled bend , sometimes two bends in quick succession , one can be pretty certain that though it was planned by the commissioners it follows an even older line from one village to the next , a line which had deviated in the same way around the heads of medieval furlongs . |