Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | The first pre-retirement courses were held in the United States in 1949 , but it is only in the last ten to fifteen years that the need for them has been recognised in the United Kingdom . |
| 2 | However , none of them has been found in an archaeological context and they have aroused considerable suspicion : they could be relatively modern copies loosely based on Italic originals ; they could be genuine prehistoric imports ; or they could be perfectly genuine figures brought to Britain relatively recently as curios and since discarded or lost . |
| 3 | Shown as a single work of art at the Tate Gallery and three other European museums in 1962–63 , those six canvases were subsequently divided and sold separately , and none of them has been included in any recent exhibition of Bacon 's art . |
| 4 | ‘ I can see I 've been displaced in Leo 's affections . ’ |
| 5 | The Israeli Mossad would have confirmed that I 'd been killed in Damascus . |
| 6 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 7 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 8 | Since I 'd been living in the flat , Shadwell had been coming to see Eva at least once a week , during the day , when Dad was at the office . |
| 9 | I 'd been living in the country with my wife when she died unexpectedly . |
| 10 | I did put the landing light on , though , as I 'd been ambushed in the dark on those stairs before , barely escaping with my life . |
| 11 | I 'd been teaching in Preston it must have been three years then , and when I read that book I suddenly realized I knew nothing about Lancashire at all — not the real Lancashire . |
| 12 | The last dying patient I 'd been to visit in this hospital had been the caretaker of our Health Centre , in much pain from a carcinoma of the pancreas . |
| 13 | ‘ If I 'd been trained in mind-reading rather than riot control , Dexter , I 'd tell you . ’ |
| 14 | I 'd been indulging in good heart exercise while sitting still . |
| 15 | I 'd been shopping in Smiths and I thought I recognised him . |
| 16 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 17 | At the end of my foundation year I 'd been voted in as Social Secretary , in charge of putting on all the shows there . |
| 18 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 19 | i found myself in the same place where I 'd been wounded in Easter , 1917 . |
| 20 | Long after I 'd been smothered in bed |
| 21 | Perhaps she had ; but there was nothing mad about the composed face I 'd been shown in the portrait and the photograph , only an infinity of patience . |
| 22 | I was surprised I 'd been let in at all , surprised that I 'd been able to wander freely about the second and first floors of the cold labyrinthian building of stairwells , escalators and concrete locker-lined corridors . |
| 23 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 24 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 25 | I think I must have been gradually going off into a faint when I suddenly thought of mother reading the telegram saying that I had been killed in action . |
| 26 | I had been dealing in coke to a very small circle of friends , not more than half a dozen . |
| 27 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 28 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 29 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 30 | I had been born in India , which was troublesome . |