Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] have be " in BNC.
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| 1 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 2 | Previous to this , the biggest personal puncture I 'd had was when my pushbike ran over some glass , so I was naturally apprehensive . |
| 3 | But what I thought and what I believed had been moving further and further apart in the weeks since my father had died . |
| 4 | At that , some apprentices , whom I judged to have been well-primed and well-paid for their services , set up a feeble shout . |
| 5 | The other glass , which I guessed had been the constable 's , he put in the sink . |
| 6 | I loved my father , and when he died I felt something I loved had been taken away from me . |
| 7 | On my return from Norway I found that the sports hall where I worked had been burnt down . |
| 8 | For those first two years I was able to enjoy behaving childishly — a pleasure which I felt had been denied to me — and being relatively free from responsibility . |
| 9 | I clambered over the rubble where I thought it was safe to do so , and got one piece of the great white pulpit , and the last page of the Bible I knew had been used by Dr Thomas Chalmers before his mission to New Guinea . |
| 10 | When I looked from his face to O's ( my eyes often followed Madame 's ) I saw an older face , one I thought had been weathered by sex and by that indefinable sorrow of O's into a quiet , strong silence . |
| 11 | I said well I thought well has been up there been up there er I thought had been up there a had been up there ? |
| 12 | That I did had been a 45 year fantasy come true . ’ |
| 13 | ‘ I may not have been the tallest , nor the most athletic — Mick Doyle reckoned I only ever jumped from my shoulders up — but what I did have was the most effective arse in world rugby ’ . |
| 14 | He , from the papers I found there , I deduced to have been an academic of some kind . |
| 15 | First the old Morris I liked had been exchanged for a Jowett Javelin . |
| 16 | Any doubts I had had were dispelled by the look of contemptuous hostility on his face . |
| 17 | Clearly outlined was the oval shape of the perimeter of what I suspected had been a professionally-built concrete pool , now filled in — for what reason I ca n't imagine . |
| 18 | Revelation came and sat in the shade of Masquerade 's bows where she plucked two chickens that I suspected had been killed in honour of my return to the island . |
| 19 | The Prime Minister added : ‘ Every Parliamentary answer I have given or letter I despatched has been based on the position I understood it to be . ’ |
| 20 | The three of them seemed to have been inexorably drawn together with each step they had taken . |
| 21 | but you got to have been out of work six months , so I said well I 've been out of work six months , so she , I 've got that to do tomorrow , so I get up the firm this Spinny Hill , Northampton , that 's an adult education centre where you can go and learn the skills of your trade , but she said that might not start until September |
| 22 | It seemed to me that the question she asked had been simmering in her for some time . |
| 23 | Particularly unimpressed was Nell McCafferty who thought it a bad choice as an opening movie which she assumed had been selected as a ‘ keynote ’ film for the festival . |
| 24 | A vengeful Mrs Wallace Reid turned over to police all the names of those she believed had been responsible for Wally 's debauched lifestyle . |
| 25 | As she revealed to writer Sherwood Anderson , she had made a conscious decision to limit the type of image she believed had been most susceptible to critical misreadings in 1923 : |
| 26 | But all she 'd had were roles in forgettable TV shows and minor movies . |
| 27 | She was no raving beauty , did n't have a model-like figure — all she 'd had was some money . |
| 28 | What she 'd had was a double-booking , effectively , cos she 'd had this dinner which was meant to be in the private dining hall , but the numbers had suddenly shot up , and because they 'd said originally they wanted either the private dining hall or the main dining hall depending on numbers , she should have really booked them both and decided later and told me to like try somewhere else , but she did n't , she told me yeah the dining hall 's free . |
| 29 | She stood on what she judged to have been the centre of their cottage and , fearfully biting her lip , gazed about her . |
| 30 | Almost at once Ruth felt as if she were sliding into a dream ; the glade vanished behind them , and soon she seemed to have been walking this path all her life , through the vista of trees , with the tip of Fand 's spear faintly gleaming , and Adam ahead of her , treading like a king . |