Example sentences of "[pron] [to-vb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | This case of pistols was the last and longest-surviving of the Collector 's many treasures from the Exhibition , and really , he thought , with the possible exception of the velocipede which had inspired the trace of fortifications , the only one to have been of any use ; most of the others , of course , were now immovably set in the dried mud ramparts and could only have been recovered with a pick . |
| 2 | The Fat Controller looked more at home in this context than I could ever imagine him to have been at Cliff Top , or anywhere else for that matter . |
| 3 | His will , proved in December of that year , shows him to have been in easy circumstances . |
| 4 | The lists of men imprisoned for reading or distributing his New Testament show most of them to have been of quite humble origins — apprentices , tailors , weavers , servants , husbandmen . |
| 5 | In one respect the change seems to me to have been for the worse . |
| 6 | The golden period of manufacture seems to me to have been in the late 1950s and early 1960s when both manufacturers were making superbly engineered , fully adjustable machines . |
| 7 | and I mean , I considered myself to have been like , er , frequent , or erm , whatever . |