Example sentences of "he [verb] been [vb pp] [adv] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | There is really very little excuse for the student wandering out of reach of the field if he has been taught well in the first place . |
| 2 | Brown , a former member of hit teen band New Edition , fears he has been caught up in a long-running feud between his former band 's road crew and one of America 's top street gangs . |
| 3 | He has been caught up in his club 's poor form , the former English champions having slipped into the bottom half of the Premier League . |
| 4 | He has been mixed up in a number of shady deals in the Middle East . |
| 5 | And for the past two years he has been holed up in London . |
| 6 | Iago 's first stated reason for hating his master is that he has been passed over in favour of ‘ a great arithmetician ’ , a ‘ counter-caster ’ , Michael Cassio ( Othello , I.i.19–31 ) . |
| 7 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 8 | He could n't speak Arabic , as he 'd been brought up in Zanzibar . |
| 9 | I think he was an Aberdonian really the way he spoke anyway but he 'd been brought up in Blair Gowrie . |
| 10 | She wondered how he would be now if he 'd been brought up in the Down Manor Orphanage . |
| 11 | Vernon told him he 'd been taken home in a chauffeur-driven car . |
| 12 | He had been shot down in September , 194O . |
| 13 | They had gone through the buildings when they had searched the area previously but on that occasion , as Owen reminded himself crossly , he had been summoned away in the middle by that foolish District Chief and sent on that wild goose chase down to the river . |
| 14 | A post mortem revealed he had been stabbed repeatedly in the chest and died about 7pm on Friday night . |
| 15 | Still , he had been treated fairly in Ballyjamesduff , so that he did n't need to go seeking his next bite before breakfast . |
| 16 | This proved sufficient until the reign of Charles I. He was one of ‘ the sticklers in the last Parliament ’ pricked sheriff in 1625 to prevent their election to the next ( although he was able to secure that of his son for New Shoreham ) , and in the following summer he was removed from the Sussex commission of the peace , to which he had been appointed only in 1624 . |
| 17 | With a schoolboy 's shamefacedness , as if he had been caught out in something furtive ( as , really , he had ) , he agreed at once to take her class . |
| 18 | The former Vice-President , A. K. M. Nurul Islam , protested at the summary manner of his dismissal on Aug. 13 ( see p. 36852 ) , while M. A. Matin resigned on the same day as Deputy Prime Minister and deputy parliamentary leader claiming that he had been passed over in promotion to the post of Prime Minister . |
| 19 | He had been taken on in an unofficial capacity as Captain 's companion , but , like everyone else on board , from ship 's surgeon to midshipman , he had made the best of this great opportunity by gathering remarkable collections of insects , plants , birds , and fossils . |
| 20 | His goal , which squared the friendly 1–1 , was all the more remarkable considering he had been laid up in bed with flu for most of last week and forced to miss Sunday 's game against Torino . |
| 21 | He had been dropped there in a sack . |
| 22 | One of eleven children , he had been brought up in poverty . |
| 23 | Although he had been brought up in a brothel , Katherine had ensured that neither of her children knew the true function of the house , and while they might suspect where some of here money came from — especially Patrick — they were in no position to argue about it . |
| 24 | He had been brought up in Weatherbury , and was well known as a young soldier with a great interest in girls . |
| 25 | Because he had been brought up in England ( where his father was a long-serving Russian ambassador ) , his outlook was broader than that of the majority of Russian nobles . |
| 26 | He had been brought up in a hut where six people slept in one bed . |
| 27 | Many 's the night he 's been called out in the small hours … ’ |
| 28 | He 's been shot twice in the chest and is in pretty bad shape . |
| 29 | 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 . |