Example sentences of "[noun] [verb] [pron] have been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Archdeacon realised he had been carried away , cleared his throat and gulped the last of the sherry . |
| 2 | This has a shuffling joss-sticky booga-booga spook beat and a strange haircut ; this is the record that Pop Will Eat Itself have been trying to make for the past 24 months , the grinning idiot love-child of Mr Desmond Drugmusic and Mrs Winnie Indiewhine brought up in a radical lesbian commune in Vancouver , Canada and fed on a diet of black pudding and Ecstasy . |
| 3 | It seems that we need one possibly for B T given what 's been said , John . |
| 4 | Edouard admitted he 'd been attacked but denied it was anything to do with Barbara being there . ’ |
| 5 | Capital punishment for murder was abolished in 1969 and repeated attempts to reintroduce it have been defeated by an ever-increasing majority . |
| 6 | But his career all but ended that August day in 1967 when the MCC announced he 'd been suspended from bowling suspected of throwing for the rest of the season . |
| 7 | Chelsea have not confirmed their approach to him and the Swindon board say they 've been told nothing . |
| 8 | Ranulf 's face was flushed and Corbett surmised he had been sampling some of the tavern 's heady ale . |
| 9 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 10 | Because employers can increase their profits when they have greater control over the labour process it has been suggested that in the USA internal ‘ job ladders ’ of promotion and wage benefits were developed by managements within some large firms as a deliberate control strategy to counter unionism and increase the dependence of workers on their companies . |
| 11 | They 've also blocked off the railway line , and British drivers say they 've been threatened at knife point . |
| 12 | This awareness of risks and subsequent action to lessen them has been labelled risk compensation ( e.g. O'Neill , 1977 ) . |
| 13 | When waves break it has been observed that a jet of water at the crest of the wave may move forward with twice the velocity of the wave as a whole , so that high pressures may be exerted for a period of a second or two on the cliff face . |
| 14 | The majority of past and current speech recognition systems have used whole word based methods to identify what has been spoken and have been very restricted . |
| 15 | Thinking and practice impose what has been called the ‘ sick role ’ ( Tuckett , 1976 ) on people with learning difficulties . |
| 16 | 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 . |
| 17 | He looked tired and travel-weary and his first words confirmed he had been riding hard . |
| 18 | Two Cameroonian journalists claimed they had been tortured at an army barracks and made to promise " not to write anything against President Biya " . |
| 19 | The rifles with which the Jews defended themselves have been welded onto the sides of the vehicles as a memorial . |
| 20 | I have a ringing in my ears like I 've been smacked around the head . |
| 21 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 22 | But some traders believe they 've been let down . |
| 23 | From their article on the latter it is clear that Taskopruzade and Mecdi suppose him to have been located at the Zincirli medrese at Aksaray in Karaman at the time of Molla Fenari 's period of study with him . |
| 24 | The Boro 's second leading scorer felt he had been made a scapegoat for the home defeat by Watford . |
| 25 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 26 | The department said it had been decided not to invite competing tenders for Norcross because the contract award , worth between £17 million and £20 million over five years , followed so quickly the tendering exercise for Livingston that competition would have been ‘ unlikely to yield any improvement in value for money ’ . |
| 27 | Some tenants to whom this happens every few months said they 'd been told that next time they 'd have to sort it out themselves . |
| 28 | Prosecutor Edwin Beltrami said she had been arrested after failing to appear before Thames magistrates , London , in May . |
| 29 | And and the big bear said who 's been sleeping in my bed . |
| 30 | Arkan said he had been elected to protect the Serbians in Kosovo from Albanian terrorists . |