Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [verb] by [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Rousseau challenged the Christian doctrine of Original Sin ; he believed that man was by nature good , and that he had been corrupted by civilization ; savages were uncorrupted . |
| 2 | Earlier , he had been detained by fraud police from North Yorkshire investigating alleged offences under the Banking Act . |
| 3 | Lately he had been troubled by rheumatism brought on by the damp in the house , and his doctor had set him up in sleeping quarters on the ground floor with independent heating arrangements . |
| 4 | They assumed that he had been absorbed by machinery of some kind ; since his own individual chromosomatic make-up was principally metallic . |
| 5 | He had been sidelined by injury in 1985 and seemed to be playing a cat-and-mouse game with everybody in this year . |
| 6 | De Gaulle 's third priority in 1958 was to use the authority that he had been granted by parliament in early June to undertake the essential work of renewal . |
| 7 | How could he be so polite when he had been fired by passion only a couple of hours before ? |
| 8 | He remarked that Royal Jubilees were unlucky for him : at the Georgian celebrations he had been injured by stone throwing . |
| 9 | An outstanding example was provided by the GEC merger with English Electric in 1968 in which its promoter , Arnold Weinstock , firmly believed he had been helped by government support through the IRC . |
| 10 | Oh yes , Googol had been left safely in a locked room once ; and he had been taken by surprise … |
| 11 | Hickson alleged that while in the police station where he had been taken by P.C. Torney on a charge of having stolen 10&shilling from the pocket of his clothes in a cubicle at the Corporation Swimming Baths , the constable gave him a violent blow to the eye , and followed this up by two blows to the body … he was subsequently acquitted on this charge . |
| 12 | He remembered how he had been taken by force from his home in the Lithuanian village of Akmeyon when he was sixteen ; how he was beaten and spat upon by the officers because he was a Jew ; how he was forced to eat treif , and how his life in the regiment had been such a hell that he decided to desert . |
| 13 | As a boy he had been crippled by polio . |
| 14 | My dinner companions were two Swiss nurses doing a world tour , and Roger Rasmussen , a pensioner front Queensland who said he had been travelling by train for 16 days non-stop . |
| 15 | There had been a long time when he had been surrounded by wire and bars . |