Example sentences of "[vb past] be involved [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been involved with bands all those years and could play a bit of music but he never quite got the hang of the idea of written music . |
| 2 | She 'd been involved with fairs and circuses since the age of fourteen , when she 'd run off with a Wall of Death rider on his motorbike . |
| 3 | On the one hand , you wanted to play down the sleaze factor , not let it be thought that you 'd been involved with hundreds of men , that you slept with just anyone . |
| 4 | by that time I 'd been involved with . |
| 5 | ‘ I wish I 'd been involved with his case two or three years ago , ’ says Mr Stafford Smith , ‘ because the best shot you have is on direct appeal . |
| 6 | When I was a postgraduate student , for example , I was about to embark on a research project on a topic I 'd been involved in for many years . |
| 7 | I 'd seen plenty of funerals , but this was the first I 'd been involved in and I was fascinated by the splendid flowers and the well-groomed horses of the hearse and I forgot , for a moment , my fear . |
| 8 | Even Roquelaure 's omission to tell him that he 'd been involved in setting up the deal with Iran seemed less mysterious as the Métro train cruised beneath the Paris streets . |
| 9 | ‘ I 'd been involved in that plane near miss on the way to York which would have frightened anyone and it was hard to concentrate properly . |
| 10 | Zen had told them he 'd been involved in a traffic accident , which had got a good laugh all round when it emerged that he was from Venice . |
| 11 | His voice was deep and soft with memories , so that she felt her heart dip , then beat crazily as she remembered the last time she 'd been involved in his research , when he 'd kissed her that morning . |
| 12 | I 'm the only one who 's ever been mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nine , taking numbers on polling stations and so on , and so when I got elected to the Council I think one or two people at any rate felt that it was quite natural that I should have the opportunity fairly soon . |
| 13 | Yes , I was the youngest ever Mayor of Lewes by a clear ten years , I 'm the only one who 's ever been Mayor in his twenties , and I think that came about probably because the family had been in the town since the beginning of the century , erm and I 'd been involved in local politics since about eight or nineteen , I was on polling stations and so on . |
| 14 | Britain broke off diplomatic relations with the Syrians four years ago after allegations that they 'd been involved in trying to below up and Israeli airliner . |
| 15 | The organizations we studied were involved in a widely differing range of activities . |
| 16 | And at that time I rather fancied being involved in something with jazz-rock elements . |
| 17 | In other words , I was trying to establish whether religion had been important enough in the interviewees ' childhood ( at least , as it was now remembered ) for it to be mentioned , without any prompting on my part ; and then , I would try not to prejudge what the interviewees thought was involved in religion , but let them decide what aspect would come out ‘ naturally ’ — whether they would talk about the institutionalised churches , private prayer , a personal relationship with God , a way of looking at the world or the ultimate meaning of their existence . |
| 18 | It was during this time that as a senior staff officer of V Corps he had been involved with some of the orders to repatriate the Russian and Yugoslav prisoners . |
| 19 | The organisation claimed he was a Catholic who had been involved with the Army , the Royal Ulster Constabulary and loyalist terrorists . |
| 20 | Adeane was also unhappy about his association with Operation Raleigh , an ambitious round-the-world sailing venture , the second he had been involved with , run by the explorer John Blashford-Snell . |
| 21 | He had been involved with Buddhism to the point of almost becoming a monk , and had formed the mixed media troupe called Feathers , after studying mime under Lindsay Kemp . |
| 22 | The schools had been involved with financial devolution for a varying number of years , from just over one year to more than seven . |
| 23 | William had been involved with Clydesdales since his boyhood and in 1897 he bought two good mature stallions and a fine brood mare with which he established Dunure Mains as a stud . |
| 24 | Her whole family had been involved with the tradition for generations : she had just ridden with her daughter in the procession in a decorated pony and trap ; her son-in-law was the new polemaster ; and her grandson was dancing round the maypole . |
| 25 | ‘ David had been involved with a couple of things in the past , producing a couple of B-sides when I was in Quiver — we actually used his home studio for demos . |
| 26 | Andrew remarked that he had been involved with such a ceremony previously , when the opening of the Lynton & Barnstaple Railway had been re-enacted on the Brecon Mountain Railway for one of his programmes . |
| 27 | Cole 's extreme anti-semitism had developed as a result of his exposure to the Protocols when he had been involved with allied help to the White Russians in the Civil War in the 1920s . |
| 28 | There medical ethics did not prove an obstacle , there being divided medical opinions , but the wardship jurisdiction of the court was invoked by a local authority educational psychologist who had been involved with the case . |
| 29 | But it was impossible to forget entirely the rumours that William had been involved with some very undesirable people over the last few years . |
| 30 | It was widely suspected that the Tucayana had links with the military and had been involved with anti-insurgency operations against the Jungle Commandos and that they feared the establishment of a police force for the interior composed mainly of former Jungle Commando members . |