Example sentences of "[prep] [v-ing] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Richards ' main runner is On The Other Hand who was bought recently out of the John Mulhern stable after having been with Jeremy Maxwell in his early days . |
| 2 | , how did you did you find it , going back to a heavy engineering plant like after having been at for a while ? |
| 3 | One farmer in North Wales admitted that it was his wife who had trained him in lambing techniques after having been on a training course . |
| 4 | Chang , the sixth seed , was clearly exhausted by the two-and-a-half hour match after having been on court for nearly four hours on Friday when he beat Russian Andrei Chesnokov in the quarter-finals . |
| 5 | After having been in the thick of the battle for a number of years , Haslam found the transition to main board director in 1974 somewhat difficult to adjust to . |
| 6 | In October 1944 the Leaders faced the problem of redecorating the Primary School room which had been handed back to the church after having been in use during the War as a First Aid Post for a unit of the St John 's Ambulance Brigade led by Miss Mary Lutton . |
| 7 | But in South Africa , after having been in the lead for forty-three laps , he had to retire with a seized gear-box . |
| 8 | The Secretary , Liz Tildesley , was leaving the club as a result of work commitments ; and the Treasurer , Alan Pedley , would not be standing again after having been in the post for six years . |
| 9 | Despite having been through the regulatory mangle time again and time again , the group still has the potential to generate a lot of cash , and yields about 8 p.c. on forecasts for 1993 . |
| 10 | Despite having been in the open for only a few seconds , they had been soaked . |
| 11 | That honour went to the Phoenix , which despite having been in the wars , returned a very respectable Power Index of 11,857 . |
| 12 | Despite having been in touch with many agencies , they 'd only had five applicants so far — four of whom had been absolutely hopeless . |
| 13 | Spenser could consider himself a gentleman only on the basis of having been to university and acquired a Master of Arts degree . |
| 14 | As she wheeled her bicycle down the vicarage drive , she had a purely professional sense of having done nothing , but nevertheless of having been of use . |
| 15 | It is at least possible that their features came from their father 's side of the family , judging from an anecdote which Herbert told of having been on holiday at the Cape as a young man . |
| 16 | And for other girls in Carlen 's study , the scars of having been in care are more vivid . |
| 17 | Given his head at the Republican convention of 1952 he accused the Democrats of having been in charge of ‘ twenty years of treason ’ , a phrase which stuck , much to the Republican advantage . |
| 18 | I had the advantage of having been in the Civil Service in the war and [ was ] even offered establishment in the Treasury as a permanent thing . |
| 19 | Apparently one of the reception clerks , a man called Edouard , turned up at work with a black eye and other signs of having been in a good fight . |
| 20 | Over and again eye-witnesses at Verdun testify to the curious sensation of having been in the line twice , three times , without ever having seen an enemy infantryman . |
| 21 | In what way will children be better off for having been to school than they would be if they had stayed at home ? |
| 22 | A few seconds later I was despising myself for having been in any doubt . |
| 23 | How could she , never before having been in the tube ? |
| 24 | From having been at the very centre of public affairs , the Frost family sank back into almost impenetrable obscurity . |
| 25 | Without having been to college or tech or university , an IBMer at Greenock can take an MBA . |
| 26 | One official noted that ‘ most English people die without having been inside a court , and regard it as a misfortune to be entangled in a lawsuit . … |
| 27 | But he admitted to a great sense of satisfaction at having been in the job at a time when the world had ‘ seen the most rapid political changes in the past 50 years ’ , from the end of the Cold War to the dismemberment of the Soviet Union , and the appointment of former POCs like Vaclav Havel to become heads of state . |
| 28 | And er I include myself in that by having been in sales and marketing for all those years I thought I I could do anything . |