Example sentences of "[to-vb] been [noun sg] [prep] [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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1 | Now I do n't know if you remember English Whites but Danny Baker once had a caller to 606 who claimed to have been setup for a blind date a few years ago , and when he met the girl in question , one of his mates says ‘ Bloody hell she does n't half look like that player ( Kenny ) who 's in the Blues ’ ( Brum City where he built his stout reputation ) . |
2 | The three were alleged to have been part of a 30-strong gang which rampaged through the park on April 19 , 1989 , making a series of unprovoked attacks which culminated in the gang-rape of the jogger who was left unconscious with severe head injuries . |
3 | Among the Library 's most spectacular purchases during the year was a copy of Confessione della fede Christiana di M. Theodoro Beza , Vezelio ( [ Geneva ] , 1560 ) , reliably considered by scholars to have been part of the private library of Mary Queen of Scots . |
4 | Yet in one sense even the United States might be said to have been part of an economic system controlled by Europe down to 1914 in that she remained a capital-importing nation , and that capital came from Europe . |
5 | The liberals were equally determined to use their parliamentary power to prevent reaction : in masonic circles there seems even to have been talk of a republican dictatorship . |