Example sentences of "who has been [verb] [prep] [noun pl] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The Old Boys will hope that their captain , England international Julian Halls , who has been plagued with injuries since the summer , comes through a second XI game today without problems ; if so , he is likely to be in the squad . |
| 2 | Police are warning elderly people to be on their guard against a bogus council worker who has been calling at homes in the Forest of Dean . |
| 3 | Die Entführung ( also known as The Seraglio ) takes place in a Turkish harem , and concerns the efforts of Belmonte , a Spanish nobleman , to rescue his beloved Constanze , who has been captured by pirates and sold to the Pasha Selim along with her English maid , Blondchen , and Belmonte 's servant , Pedrillo ( who are , naturally , also in love with each other ) . |
| 4 | But Shadow Chancellor Gordon Brown , who has been pressing for CUTS in interest rates , said the rise was ‘ disastrous . ’ |
| 5 | Heavily involved in these negotiations were representatives of the US-based Orangutan Foundation , which has branches in Taiwan , Indonesia and the UK , and which was set up by Dr Biruté Galdikas , who has been working with orangs in Kalimantan for more than 20 years . |
| 6 | Hell , for a 60-year-old man who has been busted for drugs , received death threats from the Klan and had triple-bypass heart surgery , you look damn good , John . |