Example sentences of "having [been] in [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Apparently one of the reception clerks , a man called Edouard , turned up at work with a black eye and other signs of having been in a good fight . |
| 2 | I had the advantage of having been in the Civil Service in the war and [ was ] even offered establishment in the Treasury as a permanent thing . |
| 3 | Unlike the other mills powered by the Painswick Stream , there is no evidence to suggest that it has ever been anything but a corn mill , virtually all the others having been in the woollen cloth trade at some time . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 6 | 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 . |