Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] [prep] [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I consider that nothing has been laid before your Lordships to justify the view that their advice based on this objection was incorrect . |
| 2 | I certainly have no knowledge of of any contact with regard to the ultimate venue and nothing has been marked on my file . |
| 3 | I certainly have no knowledge of any contact with regard to the ultimate venue and nothing has been marked on my file . |
| 4 | The Emissary 's Illusochamber had also been free of bugging devices as I 'd found when I 'd been fiddling with my headband , activating a mini-ceptor in one of the jewels . |
| 5 | Minny : one day when I 'd been gushing about her dress when she was going out to a dance . |
| 6 | The first thing that struck me was that of about 100 different offerings at least half a dozen times I 'd been stopped in my tracks by absolutely classic flavours . |
| 7 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 8 | I said I could see Victor was right , I had over-complicated the plot ; I should not have introduced the letters , which were paraphrases of a correspondence I 'd been reading on my journey to London . |
| 9 | He is very strict , and would dismiss me if he found out I 'd been interfering with his books . |
| 10 | I 'd been lying on my bed , thinking of you , and suddenly I could n't bear it a moment longer and jumped off the bed intending to phone you — and there you were , looking half drowned and so nervous I was afraid to put a foot wrong . ’ |
| 11 | I told him again how I had been reinforced in my belief that , whereas Germany seemed intent on war , Italy , while verbally identifying herself with the Axis , would clutch at any straw to evade participation , and that our policy should be to keep her out of it with every means in our power . |
| 12 | I had been touched by his kindness to my aunts , though later on it seemed more like arrogance than virtue . |
| 13 | I had been heartened by their performance , but Pat really thought that , in its basic approach , the Government was right . |
| 14 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 15 | It was as though I had been deprived of my rights , as elder sister , to the first go at something . |
| 16 | Like all British officials of the Egyptian Government I had been dismissed from my university post eighteen months before , and I was glad that the British Council was able to offer me a small post in Athens , instead of piece work in Cairo . |
| 17 | Instinctively I went into a steep spiral dive , furiously angry that I had been beaten at my own game . |
| 18 | ‘ I had been threatened by my older brother years before not to tell anyone when he was ‘ experimenting ’ with me . |
| 19 | I saw that I was intended to be subject to people like these two , was doomed to marry Syl as surely as I had been born of my mother . |
| 20 | I also explained to him myself that I had been abused by my father , who was a doctor , and that I did not wish to be examined by a man . |
| 21 | I had been counting on his saying no to at least one of those , so that I could issue a hollow guffaw and depart , shaking my head ruefully ; but he did not , and I had no choice but to slink away or sign in . |
| 22 | I had been selected in my second year at Eton , while I was still a Lower boy , to box against the Eton Mission from Hackney Wick in the East End of London . |
| 23 | If I had been playing on my own my head would have dropped off by now . |
| 24 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 25 | ‘ I had been rowing with my dad since I was little , so I did n't want to go to his new family with my brother . |
| 26 | I started by saying to Harold that I had been told about his Honours List — I did not tell him by whom — and I hoped that what I heard was mistaken . |
| 27 | Before going to RADA I had been encouraged at my school in school plays , which included Oh , What a Lovely War . |
| 28 | It was a standing pose and I had been working at my canvas for a week , my problems were not nearly solved , and the painting still excited me . |
| 29 | I had been revived by my contact with Tom Watt , although a shade concerned about his anxieties . |
| 30 | I 've been listening to your programme all morning so . |