Example sentences of "[pers pn] have be [adv] [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In fact , most people publish in the hope that their findings will continue to be relevant long after the particular theory to which they have attached them has been finally laid to rest . |
| 2 | In particular , the number of stopping places available to them has been drastically reduced over a period of three or four decades during which the travelling population has been on the increase , although I have not been able to discover the measure of it . |
| 3 | I 'd been so used to my , freedom . |
| 4 | I guess it was the first time really in my life I 'd been totally left on my own . |
| 5 | I 'd been too diverted by the Unwins ' rejoicings . |
| 6 | I had been particularly struck by William Rees-Mogg 's column in the Independent on the day after the first leadership ballot . |
| 7 | I do not really like being touched by a stranger since I had been mildly attacked as a child , but something told me this was no casual greeting . |
| 8 | ‘ Brush ’ was the operative word , for I had been almost swept into oblivion . |
| 9 | She could not have known how very distressing I had found the parting of mother and child ; how I had been almost haunted by the memory of that day , of the poignancy of a mother kissing her baby goodbye . |
| 10 | I had been quite spoilt by now and anyway I had had my fill of walking alongside modern day roads , so I took the bus to Lochranza . |
| 11 | I suppose , after all , I 've had it since ‘ 66 , so I 've been well known for 26 years , which is a long time , and I do n't get anything much out of it any more . ’ |
| 12 | But to tell the truth , for a long time I 've been slightly lost as a dealer . |
| 13 | ‘ It 's never been something I 've been immediately faced by . |
| 14 | I 've been publicly blamed for letting the team down — vilified by the Press ! |
| 15 | And I have been particularly inspired by this : I was impressed that many of us say that " Few understand a philosophical rhetor , and many understand rustic speech " . |
| 16 | I do n't know which is most unlikely , but after studying in Louisiana , and spending a ghastly summer and a magical Christmas in New York , I have been savagely bitten by the travel bug , while writing the novel has become a way of life . ’ |
| 17 | I have been indecently assaulted by many a wise old family physician in my time : the passion for mammary examination — which has saved almost no lives at all over the past few years , it now appears-has been fomented and encouraged by male doctors . |
| 18 | As is my usual practice , I pruned the first year 's growth back hard to produce several stems instead of just one , and I have been well rewarded for my efforts . |
| 19 | Since my return I have been busily employed in recommencing my work on the Birds of Australia … |
| 20 | His dominant inclination ( he wrote ) had always been towards philosophy , " and even in my philological studies I have been most attracted by those topics which seemed important for the history of philosophy or for ethical and aesthetic problems " . |
| 21 | This year I have been immensely saddened by the separation of the Prince and Princess of Wales , and of the Duke and Duchess of York . |
| 22 | I have been increasingly irritated by the recent series of double page advertisements for Proscar ( finasteride ) . |
| 23 | I say here that I have been gratefully assisted by the reports and evidence of Mr Peter and Mr David from Hunstead Park in this case . |
| 24 | During the last 12 months I have been very encouraged with the way you have continued to work effectively — meeting deadlines that seemed impossible and coming up with ideas for cost savings within your own departments . |
| 25 | there is no doubt about the matter at all that power as constables I have been inadvertently removed by the Department of Transport that is reality . |
| 26 | Since my dramatic arrival on the fishkeeping scene , I have been constantly troubled by reporters hiding in my filter , dustbins , and under the coal in my bath , all seeking to catch me with a fishkeeping grouper . |
| 27 | I have been helpfully referred to a number of authorities relating to costs , beginning with the decision of the Court of Appeal in Scherer v. Counting Instruments Ltd . |
| 28 | I have been greatly encouraged by our recent form . |
| 29 | ‘ I have been greatly encouraged by our home grown talents who are joining our industry and will be the stars of tomorrow . ’ |
| 30 | This week , so I hear , I have been publicly denounced from a Roman Catholic pulpit — by no less than the Provincial of the Dominican Order of monks . |