Example sentences of "[vb past] have [be] [prep] the " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 3 | In many ways they seemed to have been on the verge of civilisation , as they kept pigs , and cultivated the land for millet . |
| 4 | 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 ) . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | The problems we faced had been at the centre of passionate argument for many decades . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Spencer denied having been at the scene when the attack took place but the jury took just less than twenty minutes to convict him . |
| 10 | 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 . |