Example sentences of "had [been] [verb] by two [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The alarm had been raised by two peasants who , as the first sentence of the newspaper story recounts , were walking in the park and noticed a cap lying on the ground , together with a hood and a cudgel . |
| 2 | Old Mother Jacobsen had once told her how Møn — ‘ The Maid ’ — had been languishing in the frozen Arctic Circle , abandoned by her sun-craving lover , when her cries of anguish had been heard by two giants . |
| 3 | Announcement of the England team , originally scheduled for 10.00am , had been delayed by two hours so that Gooch could give Daffy the bad news . |
| 4 | Stempel had been replaced by two men : John Smith is the new chief executive officer and John Smale takes over as chairman . |
| 5 | Eventually , after she had been joined by two others whose grasp of the English language was as poor as hers , they booked in to two rooms . |
| 6 | At Philadelphia he had been joined by two others in what was obviously a preplanned meeting since the moment dinner was cleared away and a new round of gin and diet tonics ordered they began a miniature board meeting . |
| 7 | By early July the two Meteor F.4s had been joined by two Meteor T.7s ( and a Tiger Moth ! ) and the crews were introduced to the ‘ joys ’ of jet asymmetric flying . |
| 8 | After this timewasting procedure , George Shackel related how he and his manservant had been attacked by two labourers in Kings Meadow . |
| 9 | The original bookcases of carved oak still lined the walls , although they now housed the Laboratory 's not inconsiderable scientific library , while extra shelf-room for bound copies of national and international journals had been provided by two steel movable units which divided the room into three bays . |
| 10 | And when I asked her what she was doing with it , Emma — or maybe it was Sophie — told me that it had been dropped by two men , who were fighting each other behind some trees on the other side of the park . ’ |
| 11 | A newspaper owned by the applicants published an article suggesting that the interview notes had been removed by two officers of that squad and that allegations about tampering with files could never be proved because the vital evidence contained in the file had disappeared . |
| 12 | The article referred to the suggestion that the interview notes had been removed by two officers from the Serious Crime Squad and suggested that allegations about tampering with files could never be proved because the vital evidence contained in the file had disappeared . |
| 13 | Although he had suffered only a broken arm , it had been feared by two doctors at the scene that he had suffered serious head injuries . |
| 14 | In addition , two similar houses had been bought by two companies , one of which , Ivyester Ltd , was wholly owned by Mr and Mrs Kempton . |