Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As soon as Moby was too old for puppy classes , he went to the bigger-dog classes , run by Jenny , to reinforce what he 'd been taught at puppy classes and , most importantly , what he 'd learned at home . |
| 2 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 3 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 4 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence . |
| 5 | She 'd been counting on rescue services arriving with the dawn , but maybe they would n't be coming after all . |
| 6 | SHe wondered whether SHe 'd been missed from Club Eleusis yet . |
| 7 | Before treatment , H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa had been detected by urease test and histology in all patients ( microscopically , after methylenblue staining in 37 and after culture in 31 patients ) . |
| 8 | Huge marquees had been erected on steel frames . |
| 9 | THE United Nations said that 20 Brazilian and 50 Russian workers had been kidnapped by opposition soldiers in eastern Angola , where they were working on a Congo River dam project . |
| 10 | Mr Suzuki 's flourishes merely echoed and embellished words that had been uttered with signal prescience almost exactly eighty years before , by John Hay . |
| 11 | Bonior , 46 , renowned as a blunt-spoken liberal , had represented a blue-collar district of Michigan since 1977 and had been appointed as deputy chief whip in 1987 . |
| 12 | When Norman recruited Sir Ian McGregor , this marked the first time in Britain that a nationalised industry chief had been appointed through executive search . |
| 13 | Lacey had been appointed by Attorney General Barr in October [ see p. 39136 ] with the specific brief of determining whether a fuller investigation was warranted . |
| 14 | There had been shelling in Casa Tampica and she had left her hair dye in the Holton Hotel . |
| 15 | Most of the lines had been built by property speculators , who once they had sold their land for housing , had no further interest in running trams . |
| 16 | The man , who police believe is instrumental in many UFF attacks , said the organisation had been flooded with young people wanting to join since the UDA was banned last August and said that only one major UFF terrorist unit had been lost in security force operations in the last two years . |
| 17 | While today 's soul singers tend to reflect the mores of a new black middle class , their erstwhile role — as an authentic voice or urban black experience — had been filled by rap artists . |
| 18 | This had been documented in health studies , and is the daily experience of any worker with travellers on unauthorised sites . |
| 19 | On Oct. 26 Stavenhagen was further criticized when a cargo shipment to Israel , which had been declared as farm machinery , was seized in Hamburg and found to contain east German weapons and military equipment . |
| 20 | On Dec. 29 , 1991 , the official news agency Suna had announced that a jihad ( holy war ) had been declared in south Kordofan . |
| 21 | During Debré 's premiership , these councils had been limited to defence issues , Algeria , and African affairs . |
| 22 | A special prosecutor , Malcolm R. Wilkey , who had been empowered by Attorney General Barr to investigate the affair , was understood to have reviewed 329 separate cases . |
| 23 | Early holiday camps had been influenced by welfare considerations , educational ideals , political dreams of the collective subject , and the Social Darwinist spirit applied to the outdoor life . |
| 24 | George told Geoffrey she had been engaged to Play Peter Pan in the next production . |
| 25 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 26 | In this case , Valerie Way , who had been engaged in home/school links work , was widely tipped as the ‘ hot favourite ’ for the post . |
| 27 | Sir Emmanuel once sent us some grouse from his own table but it was not to our taste -it had been cooked in port wine and laced with some spices . |
| 28 | They arrived , collapsing from fatigue , only to be cursed by comrades , desperate from hunger and thirst , on finding that the flasks of precious pinard had been punctured by shell fragments , the bread caked with filth . |
| 29 | Walter , the youngest boy , had the most distant relationship with his father ; he and Robert had been sent to boarding school and had seen even less of John than their sisters . |
| 30 | With the family adamantly opposed to the match , Raine and Johnnie married quietly at Caxton Hall register office on July 14 , 1977 , shortly after he had been named in divorce proceedings by the Earl of Dartmouth . |