Example sentences of "[v-ing] [adv] been [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Having already been through some significant change the company is therefore well placed to face the likely ‘ upheaval ’ of the following year or so . |
| 2 | Diana arrived at Sandringham that weekend having just been through a most traumatic period . |
| 3 | Dear Guitarist I feel I must put pen to paper , having just been to an excellent ‘ 30 Years of Jim Marshall ’ evening here in Copenhagen , Denmark . |
| 4 | Having always been on the periphery of Europe it has not hindered our successful trading in the past . |
| 5 | However for many academics , particularly in the areas of industrial sociology and industrial relations , the focus on labour flexibility was seen as an excuse by management to blame the workforce for the problems endemic in British manufacturing , Sweeping generalisations about the degree to which the British workforce had accepted changes and become more flexible were found questionable and often dismissed as being exaggerated or as having always been in existence . |
| 6 | The State of Qatar became independent in 1971 , having previously been under United Kingdom protection . |
| 7 | In the summer of 1979 , at the end of my first year as a history student at Edinburgh University , I , having never been outside Britain , put a pack on my back and , with a great and enduring friend of similar enthusiasm , set out across Europe . |
| 8 | Well , having actually been to Nashville and found it a singularly ugly and inhumane property developer 's hell , I never really thought the city was downhome . |
| 9 | She could n't remember having actually been in one and anyway , they rarely came Past Mrs Parvis 's lodgings . |
| 10 | you see , you see you 're sneezing again been in that cold garage , I told you , did you have the fire on ? |