Example sentences of "and have been [verb] [prep] its " in BNC.
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| 1 | The company was a victim of the mania for leveraged buyouts of the late 1980s and has been staggering under its burden of debt . |
| 2 | In individual women when the light is known , and has been experienced in its different forms , then it can serve to change and inspire . |
| 3 | Once occupied and having been carried to its destination , the coffin opened at the bottom and the occupant was dropped into the grave . |
| 4 | It not only covered ships passing to and fro through the Strait , but also included reports of Argentine air strikes , naval activity , including the sinking of the Belgrano , and even references to the British helicopter that had landed on the coast of the Magellan Strait almost opposite Punta Arenas , and had been destroyed by its pilot . |
| 5 | In those days the paper had sold 5.25 million copies and had been respected for its powerful , picture-led campaigning journalism , its commitment to the Labour Party , and the chord it struck with its primarily working-class readership . |