Example sentences of "[noun sg] [prep] [v-ing] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had the advantage of having been in the Civil Service in the war and [ was ] even offered establishment in the Treasury as a permanent thing . |
| 2 | Chang , the sixth seed , was clearly exhausted by the two-and-a-half hour match after having been on court for nearly four hours on Friday when he beat Russian Andrei Chesnokov in the quarter-finals . |
| 3 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 4 | Over and again eye-witnesses at Verdun testify to the curious sensation of having been in the line twice , three times , without ever having seen an enemy infantryman . |
| 5 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |
| 6 | But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years ’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . |