Example sentences of "[v-ing] been [verb] [adj] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Once , at Milan airport , we were herded to the gate and corralled in an area almost big enough for half of us , then shifted to a bus with six seats and standing room for forty , in which the one hundred and twenty of us stood and waited for the idiot who always arrives twenty minutes late despite having been called ten times and being the subject of an Interpol missing persons search . |
| 2 | It has had over the years to be much restored , having been damaged three times by earthquakes and also outrageously neglected by the community of monks , who seem to have had an unnatural taste for litigation — one lawsuit between them and the locality lasted almost throughout the eighteenth century . |
| 3 | I have more reason than most to do that , having been shot 10 times by the IRA . |
| 4 | She ran as though she was wearing high heels when a terrible flop on her last visit to Britain , having been made hot favourite for the 1,000 Guineas won by Sayyedati . |
| 5 | She ran as though she was wearing high heels when a terrible flop on her last visit to Britain , having been made hot favourite for the 1,000 Guineas won by Sayyedati . |
| 6 | Daleys Dennis is also in action tomorrow , the first eight heats having been completed last night . |
| 7 | If a woman 's relationship with a man breaks down , and he abandons her , she will usually blame herself , having been taught that success in personal relationships is her responsibility . |
| 8 | In the delicate balance between trust and accountability , an Area Secretary should be confident that her/his report will always be acknowledged on the basis of its having been given serious attention . |
| 9 | Furthermore , we also need to keep in sight the fact that ‘ creativity ’ is itself an ambiguous concept , having been given various meanings and judged according to differing criteria depending on the context in which it has been studied . |
| 10 | The Commission had decided in July 1989 that serious transgressions of EC law had occurred in the allocation of contracts , with Danish interests having been given preferential treatment . |
| 11 | I do not remember there having been given such consideration and discussion to the constitution of any other body with which I have been associated . |
| 12 | On Aug. 14 , the remaining refugees , numbering about 2,000 , having been given clean clothes and food , and told , in an apparent change of heart by Italy , that they could stay while their cases were examined , were taken in small groups to reception centres in distant parts of the country . |
| 13 | Without it , your employer risks making decisions on the basis of inadequate information and you risk losing your job without having been given sufficient opportunity to convince management that you still have something to contribute . |
| 14 | their father 's land having been split three ways among his sons . |
| 15 | I stretched , grunting with pain as my leg muscles extracted their revenge for having been ignored twelve hours earlier . |
| 16 | Current chairman Nazmu Virani is on remand having been charged last week with conspiracy in connection with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 17 | Sex having been invented this way ( and later used to help the individual to develop disease resistance and the species to evolve more quickly ) a new problem arose : when an egg and a sperm fused during sex , a battle ensued between them to monopolise the resulting offspring . |
| 18 | He comes home late night , one Saturday night , having been working long hours , not having enough sleep , she nags him and Madam he loses his temper with her and Madam , I am sure that you and I in our relationships same sort of stress in a different situation where , where we 've been nagged by our partners and lost our temper and pushed them about , or whatever , and we 'd be very surprised I think to find ourselves in , in my client 's situation had that happened , because what , what happened here Madam was that erm the girlfriend suffered some minor injuries , nothing to worry about really . |
| 19 | Soon , all twenty children were in their beds , stiff in their laundered nightgowns , without having been offered any supper , nor even as much as a sly sip of water . |
| 20 | He is already a member of the British junior team , having been chosen two years earlier than most of the others . |
| 21 | Barry had been indicted on Feb. 15 on three felony and five misdemeanour charges after he had been arrested in a hotel room on Jan. 18 , having been filmed smoking crack cocaine with a former lover , Hazel " Rasheeda " Moore . |
| 22 | Barry had been indicted on Feb. 15 on three felony and five misdemeanour charges after he had been arrested in a hotel room on Jan. 18 , having been filmed smoking crack cocaine with a former lover , Hazel " Rasheeda " Moore . |
| 23 | And the mighty Red River , having been dammed six times for hydro-power , was actually the motionless mud-coloured Town Lake in the middle of Austin , the State Capital of Texas . |
| 24 | By December however , Fleming 's Level had still not cut the vein despite having been driven 47 fathoms . |
| 25 | The evergreen heart-throb thought he should be an expert on the subject having been wed three times . |