Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been bear in " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been born in India , which was troublesome . |
| 2 | IN EXTRACTS from my forthcoming book , A Cuckoo in the Bodyline Nest , published in the May and June issues of WCM , I wrote that I had been born in Marathon Avenue , Darling Point , Sydney , next door to Gubby Allen . |
| 3 | ‘ Because I have been born in England , I have been taught to be independent , original and to think for myself . |
| 4 | It was n't her real name and — like Horowitz — she 'd been born in Hungary . |
| 5 | She had been born in 1688 in Marston St. Lawrence , and had married Richard Jennens of Mollington , Oxfordshire , in 1708 [ Baker , 1 , 720 ] . |
| 6 | She had been born in India , where her father was stationed with the Air Force , but after her parents separated she was brought up by her mother , who lived with another woman in Northampton . |
| 7 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 8 | She must have done , she had been born in it . |
| 9 | She had been born in Edinburgh but only mad chance because I think that the family were only there a short time . |
| 10 | She had been born in this apartment — in the bedroom that he slept in , maybe the very bed , she grinned — and she loved the place . |
| 11 | TOTALLY UNKNOWN US bluesman comes to Britain and gets schlepped into a studio to record with a bunch of locals who wish they 'd been born in America 's Deep South . |
| 12 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 13 | She saw him scowl darkly as he scanned the page , and wondered for a few moments if perhaps , although he could speak her tongue almost as if he 'd been born in her country , he did not read English so well . |
| 14 | He had been born in May 1940 and he died in November of the same year . |
| 15 | He had been born in Tucupita and had grown up there in the region of Venezuela where the great Paraqua river met the Orinoco and flowed into the Delta of the Orinoco where the sea moved on to Trinidad . |
| 16 | Although he had been born in Wine Street , Bristol , his cloth-making ancestors had come from Wellington , and his grandfather had farmed in the remote Somerset hamlet of Rich 's Holford below the southern slopes of the Quantock Hills ; his eccentric uncle , John , was comfortably established in a ‘ most delightful villa ’ a mile from Taunton , and Bath had intermittently been Southey 's own home since childhood . |
| 17 | He had been born in 1829 , the year of Catholic Emancipation . |
| 18 | If he had been born in Australia or Lithuania or even Manchester , Sheikh al Hassan could have ejected his minion on to the street in the sure knowledge that it would be put down to robust good humour . |
| 19 | If he had been born in England he would have been put in care by now . |
| 20 | He had been born in Jamaica but came to England in the 1940s to work in the steel industry . |
| 21 | Jack was the eldest of the family and he had been born in a smaller house , but he did n't remember it . |
| 22 | He had been born in England , had never seen India , spoke English as his cradle tongue and had forgotten all the Hindi he had ever learned but he had all the immigrant 's protective reactions and all his self-consciousness . |
| 23 | He was the man in charge of H3 , and he spoke with his émigré parents ' guttural Central European accent although he had been born in Ipswich , and he had been in H area for 26 years . |
| 24 | He had been born in America of American parents . |
| 25 | He had been born in Coatbridge , Glasgow in 1962 and been inside periodically from the age of seventeen . |
| 26 | And outside this family home he might have heard the call of the greylag geese as they rose and circled in flight above the River Vistula within whose rolling sight he had been born in 1920 . |
| 27 | He had been born in one of the hideous concrete blocks of flats erected after the Great Patriotic War . |
| 28 | Mark Twain was so impressed he included a description in his work The Innocents Abroad : ‘ I watched the Silver Swan which had a living grace about his movements and a living intelligence in his eyes — watched him swimming about as comfortably and unconcernedly as if he had been born in a morass instead of a jewellers ' shop — watched him seize a silver fish from under the water and hold up his head and go through all the customary and elaborate motions of swallowing it ’ . |
| 29 | Most of us had been born in the mining community . |