Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] put in " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Thank you for all the help you gave to us and to Bob during the last few days of his illness — I only wish we 'd been put in touch with ACET sooner . |
| 2 | It 's difficult to be sure , but I 'd say he 'd been put in the water immediately after death and that he 's been tossed about in shallow water over a rocky bottom ever since . |
| 3 | Simon Maggs , from Cheltenham , who admits he has a criminal record , says Sgt Williams stamped on his leg , after he 'd been put in the police van . |
| 4 | The Prudential , like all other financial institutions involved in films , had been put in a panic by revelations about the activities of Max Schach , one of several central Europeans renting space from Korda . |
| 5 | But at that and the second Westminster election , he had been put in office by the DUP . |
| 6 | The original bothy had now become a long low front room , with settees and coffee tables , and the beds had been put in the annexe . |
| 7 | A Heron adviser said yesterday the asset protection measures had been put in place to prevent somebody ‘ charging in and acting in a way that does n't benefit all creditors ’ . |
| 8 | Enraptured by the celluloid screen , we revelled in the romance that had been denied to us , or had been put in cold storage ‘ for the duration , . |
| 9 | Here in the huge cathedral I was put in mind of all the oppression that had been put in motion with the words , ‘ You are all God 's children . ’ |
| 10 | Before Christmas I visited W H Smith and found that Spare Rib Magazine had been put in ‘ General Interest ’ , which includes all the soft pornography magazines . |
| 11 | When asked how it was done , Ruysch simply said that the corpse had been put in cold water for a day or so , the aorta and venae cavae were then opened , the blood cleared out and the whole put in hot water for four to six hours ; for the injection he had used suet or tallow in the winter , and added wax , turpentine and resin in summer . |
| 12 | Why the only one of my mother had been put in a drawer . |
| 13 | The eldest was made to use a toothbrush after it had been put in the toilet . |
| 14 | Toby , surprisingly , had been put in his own small room and I guessed that the power of the Press was already being wielded in his favour . |
| 15 | Even once a professional , nonfamily management had been put in place , one gets the feeling they were never really given free reign . |
| 16 | This had not been intended to be legalistic , but in practice the claimant had been put in the position of an ordinary plaintiff in a civil case arguing a case against a powerful insurance company or mutual insurance society ( Potter and Stansfield , 1950 ) . |
| 17 | Plans had been put in hand as early as 1978 ( the so-called ‘ Ridley plan ’ : Young , 1990 , pp. 358–60 ) to tackle the miners in a later confrontation on terms favourable to the government ; indeed , because the conditions were not felt to be ripe , the government pulled back from an earlier potential confrontation in 1981 , and allowed a large pay settlement for the NUM ( Young , 1990 ) . |
| 18 | His wife had been put in place as a Soviet agent . |
| 19 | Lamarck had been put in charge of the invertebrates , while Geoffroy Saint Hilaire ( 1772–1844 ) , another transformist , dealt with the vertebrates . |
| 20 | This was not before other constraints on local revenue raising and spending had been put in place ( see Chapter 5 ) . |
| 21 | It had been put in the water to meet the nascent bore at Newnham-on-Severn . |
| 22 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 23 | A bed had been put in one corner . |
| 24 | In addition , he had been put in sole charge of handling negotiations between Cadogan 's and one of the major American corporations . |
| 25 | Analysis of the water in his clothes showed that it was similar to water in the tidal Thames , which bore out the presumption that he had been put in the water below Teddington , but otherwise did not help . |
| 26 | The female had been put in her place , her legs made to tremble . |
| 27 | Yussuf had been put in the cells to cool off and Owen had not long before been down to see him . |
| 28 | The managerial arrangements that Sir Roy Griffiths reviewed in 1983 had been put in place by the reorganisation of 1974 . |
| 29 | No no no I was saying that there was but that had been put in quite recently . |
| 30 | Shelley was beginning to see that she had been put in a very special place of importance in Miguel 's confidence . |