Example sentences of "he [verb] been [verb] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In essence , B's claim can be characterised as asserting that he has been denied the right to a fair criminal trial . |
| 2 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 3 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 4 | ( He has been addressing the problem rather more seriously since his wife succumbed after breakfast on her way down the gangplank . ) |
| 5 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 6 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 7 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 8 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |
| 9 | This entitles him to refuse to hand them over until he has been repaid the money repayable to him . |
| 10 | Evidence abounds that he has been approaching the top of his game for the event , following up his second place in the Tournament Players ' Championship , in Florida recently , with a sixth at New Orleans on Sunday . |
| 11 | He has been studying the development of Aplysia from its tiny , free-swimming larval form through a series of intermediate stages to its adulthood , and in particular has mapped the development of the animal 's nervous system and of its behaviour . |
| 12 | Most Saturdays , assuming he has been working the night before , Young is up by 10 am for breakfast with his wife and three children : two teenage boys and Hannah Harley , four , named after his beloved motorbike . |
| 13 | He 's won dozens of gold , silver and bronze medals as a distance runner … more recently he has been awarded the MBE in the New Year 's honours list … and now he will be due for at least a service medal , at the end of the Gulf War . |
| 14 | Fortified by the support of gleeful Tories and powerful connections ( his brother-in-law is Health Secretary William Waldegrave ; his wife is lady-in-waiting to the Queen ) , he has been cracking the whip . |
| 15 | Laughton is in the hottest of hot-seats in Rugby League but at least he has been spared the indignity of the bookies taking bets on his possible successor , as has happened to Souness . |
| 16 | The clerk to the council , Mr Harry Whitehouse , received several letters from residents complaining about dogs fouling the green and nearby private gardens and he has been told the dog warden will be sent more regularly . |
| 17 | Ted Young is a very familiar voice to Radio Brighton listeners because for many many years he has been presenting the weather forecast . |
| 18 | He spread the trousers carefully on the large deal table , put the towel with which he 'd been drying the luncheon dishes carefully on top of the faded tweed , smoothed it into place and began to poke out the creases with an old iron . |
| 19 | He chuckled to himself , put down the cup he 'd been drinking the water from , wiped his lips . |
| 20 | ‘ Perhaps I should sell the place and be done with it , ’ he said with an abruptness that showed he 'd been considering the idea for some time . |
| 21 | All the same , he wished he 'd paid a little more attention to what had gone on when he 'd been leaving the depot so that he could have spotted when they carried out that trick with the form he was supposed to have dropped . |
| 22 | He felt drained , as if he 'd been drunk the night before . |
| 23 | He 'd been telling the truth . |
| 24 | He 'd been adjusting the driving mirror and he 'd only taken his eyes off the road for a moment . |
| 25 | Bobby Vinton 's ‘ Blue Velvet ’ is this week 's network chart number one ; he has n't had a hit since the nineteen sixties , and when he was told of his success in America , he thought he 'd been made the victim of a Jeremy Beadle style prank . |
| 26 | He 'd been fighting the prophet , but every time he 'd laid hands on the man , he 'd changed shape , become a cloud , a venomous snake , a wildcat , a mad woman . |
| 27 | He 'd been working too hard in college , and even harder since he 'd been running the farm . |
| 28 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 29 | After he 'd been offered the job Archie had been taken over the new building to see the general layout . |
| 30 | Not that it had done Oliver Rattrie any good , since he 'd been caught the day after by those same Chartist women who had marched into Halifax singing the One Hundredth Psalm ; sheep no longer but howling Furies who had seized him , puny little thing that he was , and thrown him in the canal where , in his struggle to keep himself from drowning , he had lost every last shilling of the blood-money in his pockets . |