Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] been [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | Despite having been in touch with many agencies , they 'd only had five applicants so far — four of whom had been absolutely hopeless . |
| 4 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 5 | As she wheeled her bicycle down the vicarage drive , she had a purely professional sense of having done nothing , but nevertheless of having been of use . |
| 6 | It is at least possible that their features came from their father 's side of the family , judging from an anecdote which Herbert told of having been on holiday at the Cape as a young man . |
| 7 | And for other girls in Carlen 's study , the scars of having been in care are more vivid . |
| 8 | Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage . |
| 9 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 10 | Without having been to college or tech or university , an IBMer at Greenock can take an MBA . |