Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | From 9 January to 10 February she has invited many of the artists with which she has been closely associated during those years to show . |
| 32 | The rape of virgins is a crime imputed by a woman to the man by whom she says she has been forcibly ravished against the king 's peace . |
| 33 | To say that she has been publicly compared with him and proved superior in fraction simplification is insufficiently explanatory . |
| 34 | And she has been so taken by her findings she has put them all down on paper . |
| 35 | if your the victim , its major , it has effected her life , maybe not to dramatically but she has been greatly inconvenienced by not having a car |
| 36 | But the prosecution says she 'd been badly beaten around the head before she died . |
| 37 | She 'd been completely refitted in Gloucester docks and was on her way to Southampton via the Gloucester to Sharpness canal . |
| 38 | Lisa did vaguely remember , now that Kerry mentioned it , but she 'd been so absorbed in what she was doing at the time that she had n't really paid a great deal of attention . |
| 39 | She felt humiliated — and because she 'd been so attracted to you during that first meeting , it was hard for her to realise the attraction must have been all on her side . |
| 40 | She 'd been so immersed in the music , letting it wash over her , uplifting her , that she had n't even realised that the car had turned into a short driveway to stop outside a luxurious chalet-type building set in a clearing of beech trees . |
| 41 | This is the dog Mr Allen was refering to , we filmed her shortly after she 'd been seriously injured in the knife attack . |
| 42 | This is the dog Mr Allen was refering to , we filmed her shortly after she 'd been seriously injured in the knife attack . |
| 43 | That is , people tend to forget either in a motivated way , or accidentally , people will tend to minimise or trivialise the abuse to which they 've been subject in some cases because maybe saying that you 've been sexually abused as a child and that is why you 're so screwed up at the moment um that 's not necessarily a very self-benefiting thing to say . |
| 44 | She had been badly battered about the head . |
| 45 | It was the fourth time she had been badly hurt on duty . |
| 46 | A LEGAL secretary who claimed she had been unfairly dismissed from work during sick leave is considering appealing after losing her case . |
| 47 | The examination papers written in Victoria 's large , even script were considered adequate ; her interview was unexceptional , although the examiners at Girton College recognised her at once as she had been universally described by all who knew her : an extremely pleasant girl of excellent character . |
| 48 | However , she had been somehow unnerved by finding him here in this way . |
| 49 | In the autumn of 1811 a young woman named Mary Flint was admitted to the infirmary after she had been savagely beaten by a man named John Field , in whose house she was a servant . |
| 50 | ‘ Goat stinks , ’ said Camille , for it was not so long since she had been frequently taken by Connie to children 's zoos where these creatures — mostly nannies and kids — were considered suitably sized and disposed to mingle briefly with the children of men . |
| 51 | She had been sexually abused as a child ; an incident that made her attempt suicide . |
| 52 | In August 1991 she disclosed to her older half-sister that she had been sexually abused by her father . |
| 53 | She had been much comforted by Craig 's presence in the house these past weeks , but in her heart she had known the situation was an explosive one and could n't last . |
| 54 | She had been truly moved by herself , by her own watery image , by her grotesquely elongated legs , her tapering waist , and above all by the undersides of her breasts , never before seen . |
| 55 | Despite the fact that she had been deeply touched by the open friendliness of the Greek couple , it came almost as a relief when finally Niall signalled that it was time to leave . |
| 56 | He says : ‘ She seemed a happy person on the surface but underneath she had been deeply affected by her parents ’ divorce . ’ |
| 57 | Now , with Liza gone , she felt she would be able to mourn Tom 's passing in her own quiet way for , despite his many failures as a husband , she had been deeply attached to him . |
| 58 | There had been times , especially after a long busy night at the club , when she had been severely tempted to just throw in the towel and thumb through the Yellow Pages to find the nearest painter and decorator to hand . |
| 59 | She had been inadvertently locked in a disused cellar and the only sound she had heard while cringing in a darkened corner was the incessant scratching as the rats scurried across the concrete floor around her . |
| 60 | She was sure he would run for it : she had been fully prepared for that . |