Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] [been] train in [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I had been trained in Mespot in the art of aerial survey by the Royal Engineers , which I felt was of no practical use to my squadron , thus I became the squadron photographic officer ( small p and small o ) . |
| 2 | In 1884 New Zealand was lucky enough to acquire a railway architect and engineer who had been trained in Scotland . |
| 3 | Trogir Cathedral , despite its late date , 1240 , is Romanesque in style and has a magnificent entrance portal by Master Radovan , the Slav sculptor who had been trained in Apulia ( PLATE 51 ) . |
| 4 | Greek theologians who had been trained in Italy and who had been very impressed by Aquinas and his Aristotelian Christianity were opposed and defeated by St Gregory Palamas , who refused to consider God in any sense as a concept , however inspiring , that could be rationally discussed and analysed . |
| 5 | Thus two years ago , when Ministry of Education planners introduced a more practical and less theoretical maths programme in technical schools , several teachers who had been trained in Portugal in colonial times complained that by dropping square-root calculations from the course , the ministry was reducing the ‘ quality ’ of education . |
| 6 | Next in the betting on 19–5 was Bob Back , who earlier in the season had sprung a surprise by beating Pebbles and Commanche Run at Royal Ascot , though Pebbles had got her revenge in the Eclipse ; he had been trained in England by Michael Jarvis , but was now in the care of Angel Penna in the USA . |
| 7 | He had been trained in England , at Sandhurst , and for the past fifteen years he had been an officer in the Imperial Guard . |