Example sentences of "[vb past] have [be] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | If I 'd been in Bill 's position I , or if we 'd had been in Bill 's position , we 'd have done the same as well . |
| 2 | Before the jury was sworn the judge was asked to hear evidence from two of the prosecution witnesses on the existence and whereabouts of evidence believed to have been at one time in existence and of relevance to the case and possible use to the Defence . |
| 3 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 4 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 5 | In many ways they seemed to have been on the verge of civilisation , as they kept pigs , and cultivated the land for millet . |
| 6 | The said Steve , the Mountie went on , seemed to have been in bed asleep at the time of his murder , and the Ontario police were wanting to interview Angelica Standish as a suspect . |
| 7 | Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill . |
| 8 | The heads interviewed had been in post from four terms to nearly 20 years . |
| 9 | Dublin could n't miss , but United had been off target in their opening four matches . |
| 10 | Many spoke with respect and admiration for the soldiers of the 6th Army , but took the view that the losses suffered had been in vain . |
| 11 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 12 | A Kashmiri Muslim , she claimed to have been to the Doon School ( the Indian Eton ) and to have completed a Master 's degree in English at Bombay University . |
| 13 | With its trial balloon grounded again , the next attempt to patch it up came from Vincent Cannistraro , who claimed to have been in charge of the CIA 's contribution to the Flight 103 investigation until his retirement in September 1990 . |
| 14 | The problems we faced had been at the centre of passionate argument for many decades . |
| 15 | Yet the fall in Poland 's output since its reforms began has been at least as severe as in eastern Germany . |
| 16 | Those projects observed had been in progress for over a year and most had established a good opening strategy as might be expected from their ability to identify schools with good potential for change . |
| 17 | She stared away from them and up beyond the cage towards the grey sky , and Creggan saw in her eyes a longing and a hope that he sensed had been with her all her long life , and was with her even now when he saw she was so near death . |
| 18 | Of the 8 experienced geologists in post after the war only M. Macgregor , Richey and Wilson were on the Scottish staff in 1931 and the last named had been in England for 5 of the intervening years . |
| 19 | Desi Grew has been in jail several times for terrorist offences , and Martin McCoffey has left Dungannon Council just a few weeks ago . |
| 20 | Desi Grew had been in prison several times for terrorist offences , Martin McCoffey had left Dungannon Council only a few weeks ago . |
| 21 | It 's alleged the car was stolen ; a 16 year old youth alledged to have been in the car at the time , is on police bail . |
| 22 | That the information sought had been in the knowledge of the company , particularly if sought from an officer of the company , added weight to the applicant 's case on the balancing exercise . |
| 23 | Spencer denied having been at the scene when the attack took place but the jury took just less than twenty minutes to convict him . |
| 24 | While visiting France the princess has been ‘ amused and smiling ’ about a sensational tape recording of a phone call said to have been between Charles and Camilla during which he said : ‘ I love you . |
| 25 | The court 's decision to deny the preliminary injunction was based in part on the notion that thousands of copies of 32V were disseminated and freely available back in the late 1970s , when in fact only about 250 copies were circulated , and those said to have been on tight contractual terms . |
| 26 | My sister , Violet , was one she coached to that standard but she was n't able to take her place at grammar school because the uniform she had to have was beyond the means of my family . |
| 27 | Police said had been in Germany since last September and was being considered for asylum . |