Example sentences of "[conj] have been [verb] a " in BNC.
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| 31 | Latterly he had been involved in eel fishing and had been seeking a place to keep his eels alive and fresh . |
| 32 | They had already been hauled up eight times , the first during the summer of 1981 , and had been fined a total of £23,200 . |
| 33 | ‘ He had no convictions prior to this incident and had been driving a car since 1957 . ’ |
| 34 | Of medium height , he was known as a dresser and had been tipped a couple of times for those best-dressed men lists . |
| 35 | Now I mean I am interested in this problem , and I have been involved in situations where teachers have sought help in trying to change their teaching style in the classroom , but in all these cases this help the initiative has been very much from the teachers themselves and they 've wanted to do it , they 've wanted to experiment with it and have been given a lot of support and help with it . |
| 36 | There was scarcely a divinity student in Cambridge , says a contemporary , who ‘ made not himself a disciple of Mr Andrewes by resorting to his lectures and transcribing his notes , and ever since they have in many hundreds of copies passed from hand to hand and have been esteemed a very library to young divines ’ . |
| 37 | The Royal Lyceum in Edinburgh , I believe , had a recent £200,000 deficit , but has been awarded a larger grant . |