Example sentences of "[v-ing] [been] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having been through the experience , though , may facilitate a certain realism about the conflict in question . ’ |
| 2 | Despite having been through the regulatory mangle time again and time again , the group still has the potential to generate a lot of cash , and yields about 8 p.c. on forecasts for 1993 . |
| 3 | Having been through the usual bass/guitar/drum formative years , they 've moved sideways to a shiny guitar/keyboard sound which draws on the good bits of the early '80s , without being retro . |
| 4 | Some of the delay is inevitably due to the way in which the applicant , having been through the preliminary investigation and the visit from the occupational therapist , considers the scheme proposed for him before proceeding to the formal application stage . |
| 5 | Of course he understood , having been through the same gruesome ordeal . |
| 6 | Having been through the six months of the greenbelt local plan enquiry , I can say quite clearly to this er examination in public , that I doubt whether there is the land available erm er around the inner edge erm erm to increase the level of of housing development in and around the city without seriously prejudicing greenbelt objectives . |
| 7 | Having been through the spate of using a clapped out vacuum cleaner that did n't do its job , and how different it is now |
| 8 | She had just slammed the car door by hooking it with one foot , when Mrs Frizzell , with a similar brown-paper bag of groceries , came round the nearest corner on foot , having been to the local store . |
| 9 | All golf and gin and bridge and cars and the right accent and the right money and having been to the right school and hating the arts ( the theatre being a pantomime at Christmas and ‘ Hay Fever ’ by the Town Rep Picasso and Bartók dirty words unless you wanted to get a laugh ) . |
| 10 | ‘ Having been to the World Cup finals the last time , I want more then ever to be part of everything and I fancy we can get there again by beating not only Lithuania , but Spain and Northern Ireland as well . |
| 11 | The introductory leaflet did not mince its words : ‘ It was a period when words contradicted deeds , propaganda realities , and when everyday life was full of fear , hypocrisy , and people felt helpless , having been at the mercy of those in power . ’ |
| 12 | That 's sounds very reasonable but I I er I I ha not having been at the level , form tutor |
| 13 | Having been at the Methodist conference last week , or fattist . |
| 14 | Having been at the end of a queue of Germans and Austrians all champing at the bit to go heliskiing , it was our turn . |
| 15 | From having been at the very centre of public affairs , the Frost family sank back into almost impenetrable obscurity . |
| 16 | Having been at the game with magi , once we had finished the joyous celebrations ( The following christmas : - ) ) we were talking about the killer goal from strach . |
| 17 | Spencer denied having been at the scene when the attack took place but the jury took just less than twenty minutes to convict him . |
| 18 | Having been on the run for nearly four years , Rudi had grown from an early teenager into a young adult . |
| 19 | Gina has taken part in the carnival before , having been on the Ropley brownies float in the parade . |
| 20 | With all eyes having been on the Government , Labour can get away with one conference like this one . |
| 21 | Having been on the receiving end of a whole host of visits over the past couple of years , we decided it was our turn to get out and about and took advantage of a kind offer by local brewers , of Abingdon , for a guided tour of the brewery . |
| 22 | In actual fact I have bent over backwards , I was the only councillor that went and welcomed one of our new ke tenant farmers quite recently , having been on the agricultural environment protection committee and been on a board of er interview panel . |
| 23 | Having been down the pub , I ai n't voting . |
| 24 | The Schimmel sale was a perfect opening for the nervous novice , as the works were fresh , having been off the market for decades , familiar from exhibitions and publications , and generally trouble-free . |
| 25 | She was very young , 18 or 19 , and relatively immature although much more worldly wise than I was because she had lived a much more international sort of life , and having been around the music scene a lot more than I had , she was streetwise at her age to a greater degree than I — there was no question of that . |
| 26 | having been in the US 's ‘ back yard ’ I know how little attention is paid to those issues there . |
| 27 | After having been in the thick of the battle for a number of years , Haslam found the transition to main board director in 1974 somewhat difficult to adjust to . |
| 28 | Having been in the front rank at the first fence he dropped back , and as the field came past the stands for the first time , with most of the runners still surviving , he had few behind him . |
| 29 | SIR — Having been in the ‘ think-tank ’ of the Cheltenham rebels after the initial selection of John Taylor as Conservative prospective parliamentary candidate ( article , April 11 ) , I feel obliged to point out that the best of us are not motivated by knee-jerk racism . |
| 30 | Having been in the militia in 1910 , when he was 14 , on the outbreak of war he joined the Canadian Army as a private in the Western Universities Battalion and was soon promoted NCO . |