Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] have been " in BNC.
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| 1 | An alleged disadvantage of alliances is that they lock states to each other even after the circumstances which initially produced them have been fundamentally altered . |
| 2 | Ever since we met I 've been the target for veiled accusations and suspicions ! |
| 3 | research that I realized I had been wrong . |
| 4 | There are about fourteen roads , streets , crescents , avenues , walks , and squares all called whatever it was you told James , and I visited number fifteen in all of them before I realized I 'd been had . |
| 5 | But I realised I 'd been a bit heavy . |
| 6 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 7 | ‘ I was bleeding and realised I 'd been hit . ’ |
| 8 | They were both attacked , one having a violent headache , the other being possessed as I now realised I had been . |
| 9 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 10 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 11 | Later in that passage he wrote : ‘ It was n't until thirty years later when I saw her in another woman [ Elizabeth Taylor ] that I realised I had been searching for her all my life . ’ |
| 12 | ‘ I realised I had been watching them for 15 minutes . |
| 13 | THE KITCHEN was a large stone-floored room whose low ceiling seemed to trap the heat of the stove and hold cooking smells long after the meal that created them had been forgotten . |
| 14 | But he pretended I 'd been bothering him for something , he was clever about it , it seemed real . ’ |
| 15 | Wendy Almon went to pick up two-year-old Eva , but found she 'd been abducted |
| 16 | We interviewed Pascoe again today and he mentioned you had been to see him . |
| 17 | ‘ I got a bit worried when I found you 'd been sending your subordinates out to buy crucifixes . ’ |
| 18 | ‘ The club gave us a presentation because they looked into their records and found we had been members the longest , ’ said Mrs Williams . |
| 19 | As it was , when we eventually returned , we found everything had been destroyed — houses , crops , animals . |
| 20 | In most of the areas in which riots occurred there had been a breakdown in community/police relations ; the public distrusted the police and they had no confidence in the police complaints machinery . |
| 21 | They found there had been no unjustifiable delay and said time had been needed to assemble evidence . |
| 22 | Very significantly , in comparing his study with another carried out 19 years before , Gorer found there had been a marked increase in this expressed appreciation of the sexual factor in marriage — even more marked in women than in men . |
| 23 | Sir Edmund found there had been cases of physical ill-treatment such as wall-standing , hooding , noise , deprivation of sleep , and diets of bread and water . |
| 24 | Although he said he could not release any details about the inquiry 's scope , in general , if the CRE found there had been unlawful practices it would issue a ‘ non-discrimination notice ’ listing the changes to working methods a respondent must make . |
| 25 | Although he said he could not release any details about the inquiry 's scope , in general , if the CRE found there had been unlawful practices it would issue a ‘ non-discrimination notice ’ listing the changes to working methods a respondent must make . |
| 26 | The masses were uneducated and the producers had given them rubbish , but what had really ensured ‘ the bloodlessness of the American film ’ was that with intellectuals alienated and excluded there had been ‘ no intelligent body ’ to shape the new medium . |
| 27 | One reason I was disappointed is because what it says in these minutes , Robert 's people reported they 'd been speaking to the R and Abbey Leisure Service in London that had been considerable interest in the Edinburgh Festival Programme and in everything |
| 28 | how well they recalled the review activities , how involved they had been and how far outsiders to the school had been involved ; |
| 29 | At Ealing Broadway they found they had been . |
| 30 | He examined Sir Thomas 's corpse , pronounced him to have been poisoned , and claimed the potion was placed in a half-drunk cup of wine beside Sir Thomas 's bed . |