Example sentences of "[prep] [pers pn] [v-ing] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Yet three years earlier , at the important siege of nearby Saint-Sauveur-le-Vicomte , the French had used thirty-two cannons , gunstones for them having been conveyed there in carts and by packhorse . |
| 2 | On Aug. 17 a gunman killed two off-duty civil guards in the Basque town of Oyarzun , bringing to 622 the total of apparent ETA victims in 1992 , 18 of them having been killed in the period January to March . |
| 3 | One of the bestselling lines this year has been juggling balls , hundreds of them having been purchased . |
| 4 | Nor , for that matter , are they all able to make first-hand experiments with teaching style , some of them having been promoted out of contact with the pupils . |
| 5 | There was a minimum of 22 active groups in the County at the end of our fieldwork , most of them having been established during the lifetime of the CMHTs . |
| 6 | Angel One had argued in vain that the actual heroin loss involved was negligible , most of it having been moved on , and that the setting up of a new base was only a matter of time and resourcefulness . |
| 7 | She then ran her finger along the narrow groove between the door and the frame to check for wires in the unlikely event of it having been booby-trapped . |
| 8 | He would insist on checking our observations before we sent them to Group on the teleprinter , and this we regarded as a deadly insult , most of us having been doing them unchecked for over three years . |
| 9 | Nevertheless when the book appeared in November 1948 , passages from it having been previewed in Penguin New Writing 33 , it made a significant impact . |
| 10 | Right , it 's clear i n't it under four rule twenty eight , four , it 's not essential for the disallowance of any cost or interest that er the taxing officer should be satisfied that erm the other party has been prejudiced , in fact that is not a condition precedent to the exercise of his part and disallow interest in this here item , er any prejudice there maybe is merely one factor to be taken into account in other matters and it does seem to me that the fact the court can , can properly and should properly take into account , is , is that erm , it is desirable that to litigation should erm comply with there obligations , either expressly , express or explicit under the rules of the court to comply with matter such as it should have orders part drawn up and served as appropriate , as I say it seems to me that er the plaintiffs 's can be criticized in not erm having perfected the order of Mr Justice er before they did so but er , I have , it seems to me to look at all the relevant pictures in the case , er if it were the case that the plaintiff suffered any prejudice as the result of that claim , clearly that would be a matter which I would have to take into account , but I 'm bound to say it does n't seem to me that the fender of the plaintiffs to perfect the order did in fact cause any prejudice to the plaintiff and indeed if they , the plaintiffs had perfected the order , it seems to me exactly the same course of events as in fact transpired in this case , would actually have occurred and would n't make any difference at all , so unless it 's a matter of simply of er seeking to punish the plaintiff as a matter of discipline , it seems to me there is a , not really anything in the point that the order was not perfected er when it seems to me it should of been , and I , there stood to see the other er circumstances , now it 's quite clear to me having been referred to correspondence , passing between the solicitors that erm although really from a very early stage er the plaintiffs solicitors referring to Mr a letter of early nineteen ninety one indicating that erm the view was being taken that the likelihood was that erm the plaintiffs would have to get their costs out of the defendants share and interest in the premises and er that would be a matter which could only be dealt with when the enquiries director by Mr Justice had been dealt with . |
| 11 | ‘ At Mike Mahoney 's down in Marsh Street they were laying odds on thee having been cut up for cats-meat . ’ |
| 12 | All the evidence points to him having been selected by South Africa 's white military intelligence arm as their puppet . |
| 13 | Occasionally a horse starts some form of undesirable behaviour , such as putting its tongue over the bit , due to anxiety alone , and without it having been hurt ; but we still have to cure the anxiety to prevent the unwanted behaviour developing into a habit . |