Example sentences of "[verb] he [verb] been [verb] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Former BAe executive Richard Hooke says he has been told Board of Trade President Michael Heseltine is also looking at the deal , along with Welsh Secretary John Redwood and Employment Secretary David Hunt to see if it is in the best interests of the shareholders and taxpayers . |
| 2 | The eccentric Cantona jetted hastily back to France after being dropped from the side at QPR , although at the time the club claimed he had been given permission . |
| 3 | A juryman alleged he had been paid money . |
| 4 | A European commission has ruled he 'd been denied access to justice and refused freedom of speech which could open the way for the new hearing . |
| 5 | Sometimes he felt he had been made whole , delivered , in a kind of fantasy , by his very longing . |
| 6 | Charles defended the man stoutly , and asked instead , what the hell the driver thought he had been doing careering up and down the lochside like that . |
| 7 | Think he 's been playing golf has n't he or something ? |
| 8 | Who announced she was going to divorce her husband , claiming he had been finding satisfaction with model Carla Bruni ? |
| 9 | ( To avoid getting bogged down with routine reporting at the expense of his DIA mission , he had telexed Ms Starnes from Zurich to say he had been denied entry , a diplomatic untruth that still gives him a twinge when he thinks of it . ) |
| 10 | ( If her son enters when he is a few years older , he will surely be unique in being able to say he has been taking part since before he was born . ) |
| 11 | Auriol , winner of the Monte Carlo rally , was disqualified in Sweden after officials said he had been given oil outside a technical help zone . |
| 12 | Mr Reenan , a former TSB branch boss in Abingdon , said he had been sent hate mail and would probably not use his £900 scanner again . |
| 13 | From 1915 to 1918 he served as an officer in the Royal Naval Volunteer Reserve , and by the time he was released he had been appointed professor of Celtic ( a title later changed to Welsh ) at Cardiff , a post he held until his retirement in 1946 . |