Example sentences of "[adj] [pers pn] have been [verb] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Like many women , I had not know what to expect and had been shocked at how little I had been told about the reality of giving birth . |
| 2 | By the time I was twelve years old I had been thinking for some time about getting a bird of my own . |
| 3 | ‘ I mean , all this we 've been talking about . |
| 4 | Despite the profit-making prospects in this it has been treated with utter contempt on the grounds that charity begins at home . |
| 5 | He was conspicuously trying to be brave , but it was quite clear he had been devastated by the experience . |
| 6 | It was known to Charles too , for in 832 he had been installed as king there , briefly , at Limoges . |
| 7 | Salieri had never got on with Leopold II , and in 1790 he had been released from most of his court obligations , remaining as a kind of honorary kapellmeister . |
| 8 | By 1985 he had been relegated to a place in the wings while his wife , now a media star , glowed . |
| 9 | Since 1985 he has been dedicated to the development and implementation of practical/operational expert systems for different sectors of industry including aerospace . |
| 10 | Bristol University Student Union declined to join the protest , afraid it had been hijacked by extremists . |
| 11 | CD describes a ‘ piece of water in the midst ’ but although there was originally a fountain there , by 1780 it had been displaced by the plinth of the present statue of William III added in 1808 , BR 70 . |
| 12 | Ever since he was two years old he had been captivated by the pictures of the fiery beasts in The Octarine Fairy Book . |
| 13 | She was most amusing , and described how much she had been abused by reviewers and how one man wrote to her asking her to explain what on earth her books were all about , and enclosed a stamped and addressed envelope for her reply — ‘ I used it when I was paying a bill ’ . |
| 14 | It was only now that she was happy with the girls in Littlewood 's Pools that Joe realised how much she had been hurt by the cattiness in her previous job . |
| 15 | I know , it depends how much you 've been caught for . |
| 16 | this is how much tax I 've paid , this is , I mean if you go on the dole too unless you 've made a note of it there is no record of how much you 've been paid on the dole , they , they give John the what he calls a giro , takes it to the bank and cashes it and there is no , no record of and when he 's been on the dole . |
| 17 | Trade union representatives saw themselves as being accountable either to their respective trade union or to the regional TUC ( the nominating body ) , although virtually no employers ' representatives saw themselves as being accountable to regional or national CBI and many were unaware they had been nominated by this body . |
| 18 | As such it has been identified as part of a general movement towards scientific naturalism in American thought and is associated with the behaviourist turn taken in political science and , in the study of law , with the legal realist movement which flourished in the inter-war period . |
| 19 | When his trial opened on May 26 he had been charged with complicity in genocide , and the presiding judge had only substituted the lesser charge of instigating murder at the moment of reaching a verdict . |
| 20 | Since the pool opened in June 1991 it has been used by 59,500 customers — twice the national average . |
| 21 | Since 1171 he had been negotiating with Count Humbert of Maurienne . |
| 22 | After the death of King Olaf Tryggvason of Norway at the battle of Svold in 999 it had been ruled by Earl Eric of Lade and his brother Swegen under the sovereignty of Cnut 's father ; according to later Scandinavian tradition , Eric married Swegen Forkbeard 's daughter Gytha . |
| 23 | On March 7 he had been suspended from the House of Commons for 20 days after the Commons select committee on members ' interests had on Feb. 19 upheld two allegations against him of failing to declare business dealings in the register of MPs ' interests . |
| 24 | ‘ I 'm sorry you 've been lumbered with running me back , ’ Ashley said crisply , as they turned on to the road . |
| 25 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
| 26 | When I came to the Riding in 1960 I had been teaching in Leeds for five fairly empty years . |
| 27 | Dot was glad she 'd been warned by the dancing man because there was no warning from Gloria . |
| 28 | Her response — such a lighting up of her face — made me remember how few times it was likely she had been kissed in her whole life : not as a child , by the parents who had given her away ; not by her old foster parents ; not often , I guessed , even by Beatrice and her boys . |
| 29 | After all , she now knew beyond reasonable doubt who her father had been , and she 'd warmed to the little she 'd been told about him . |
| 30 | Arabella Buckley hissed out the words , but Sven Hjerson thought it very likely they had been carried by the sticky breeze as far as the couple in the prow . |