Example sentences of "having been [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | For he said — Hugh Beringar said — that Brother Cadfael understands wounds , having been many years a man-at-arms . ’ |
| 2 | She , Cecilia , though a loving , kind and humble woman , touched no one if she could help it and thought this reserve might be connected with her never having been much for sex . |
| 3 | It became a decisive and dangerous piece of initiative and the escaper got the credit of it having been that all the time . |
| 4 | And now Dennis Gray has weighed in with a second version of his ‘ Life as a Climbing Tyke ’ — the first having been that marvellous tale of human bondage from 20 year ago , Rope Boy , or ‘ How I survived an apprenticeship with Joe Brown and started to love climbing ’ . |
| 5 | Having been all this time contented about his welfare , now that her leaving was fixed and certain , she had begun to have misgivings . |
| 6 | I felt so proud of my father for having been such a fine craftsman . |
| 7 | Allied to this comes guilt : guilt about being such a wimp ; guilt about being so secretive ; guilt about having been such a bitch or a bastard ; guilt about all the things not done ; guilt about mistakes and errors of judgement ; guilt , in other words , about Not Being Good Enough . |
| 8 | ' I was objecting that , whatever you thought of Reagan , the United States was the archetypal democracy ; Mr Healey was remarking how very few people bothered to vote there at all , only one in five of the eligible voters having been enough to elect Bush ; and then we arrived obliquely at the part played in politics by exhaustion . |
| 9 | I mean I I 'd having been these comments and yes there are a couple of extra points put in there I think that that 's fine . |
| 10 | I could n't remember her ever having been any different , and even Lili could n't have known her as a young woman , for Syl 's mother was old enough to have been his grandmother . |
| 11 | This was the first increase in troop numbers for four years , and brought the Army presence to nearly 11,000 ( the peak level , in 1973 , having been some 17,000 ) . |