Example sentences of "[vb past] [to-vb] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Before the jury was sworn the judge was asked to hear evidence from two of the prosecution witnesses on the existence and whereabouts of evidence believed to have been at one time in existence and of relevance to the case and possible use to the Defence . |
| 2 | She had planted some runner beans in the patch of the old vegetable garden he had dug earlier ; they were flowering energetically and seemed to have been worth the trouble . |
| 3 | His face was so familiar that he seemed to have been with the production for weeks . |
| 4 | In many ways they seemed to have been on the verge of civilisation , as they kept pigs , and cultivated the land for millet . |
| 5 | The said Steve , the Mountie went on , seemed to have been in bed asleep at the time of his murder , and the Ontario police were wanting to interview Angelica Standish as a suspect . |
| 6 | Wheeler did not add that for a man whose chief pleasure in the past seemed to have been in giving other people orders , a falling off of that activity boded ill . |
| 7 | He claimed to have been at the Munich Olympics in 1972 while serving with the US Army , and seemed particularly proud of a photograph of himself in officer 's uniform ( without apparently realising that the insignia were incorrect ) . |
| 8 | A Kashmiri Muslim , she claimed to have been to the Doon School ( the Indian Eton ) and to have completed a Master 's degree in English at Bombay University . |
| 9 | With its trial balloon grounded again , the next attempt to patch it up came from Vincent Cannistraro , who claimed to have been in charge of the CIA 's contribution to the Flight 103 investigation until his retirement in September 1990 . |
| 10 | It 's alleged the car was stolen ; a 16 year old youth alledged to have been in the car at the time , is on police bail . |
| 11 | While visiting France the princess has been ‘ amused and smiling ’ about a sensational tape recording of a phone call said to have been between Charles and Camilla during which he said : ‘ I love you . |
| 12 | The court 's decision to deny the preliminary injunction was based in part on the notion that thousands of copies of 32V were disseminated and freely available back in the late 1970s , when in fact only about 250 copies were circulated , and those said to have been on tight contractual terms . |