Example sentences of "[v-ing] [been] [verb] in a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Her memory of the room had been of a dingy , barrack-like hall with fine plaster swags , marred by the fact that chunks of them had been missing , and they , and the room , not improved by having been painted in a weird mixture of colour : purple , pink , green , ochre , rather like the bike belonging to the old man on the S-Bahn . |
| 2 | The roof together with the sides were bolted into position permanently , after which the sliding doors were fitted , these also having been built in a jig . |
| 3 | He was , perhaps , less than worthy of his literary immortality : in 1800 the vicar of Over Stowey , having been cheated in a deal over some turf , called him ‘ as rascally faced fellow as ever I met with ’ . |
| 4 | These now have good marginal vegetation and their dams produce small waterfalls , the preferred nesting sites for Grey Wagtails which are widely distributed in this limited habitat , some 193 pairs having been recorded in a survey in 1967–69 , mainly in the Lower Greensand and High Weald areas . |
| 5 | " The Times " reported this evidence — which , having been given in a foreign court , was not protected by absolute privilege . |
| 6 | I am not arguing that moral rights get their sole authority from contiguous laws , although they can , but rather that the existence of such laws , having been passed in a deliberative and ultimately democratic manner and being constantly under test by the legislature , is evidence that these types of transaction are important enough for the maintenance of civilised life as to require such formal recognition . |
| 7 | This was the theme ingeniously exploited by Poe in his tale , The Facts in the Case of M. Valdemar , in which a semblance of life was related as having been preserved in a man mesmerised when at the point of death . |
| 8 | Having been stung in a similar situation in their last league game when Gregor McKechnie called their bluff over a kickable penalty and scuttled in for a try , Tukalo tried to do likewise after Joe Munro had been caught offside in the Watsonian 22 , as Scott Hastings was called to arms to police Linton . |
| 9 | She was in church last Sunday morning , having been taken in a wheelchair by a friend . |