Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [adv] been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr. Singh had recently been arrested on fraud charges arising out of his employment by Abbey Life Assurance Co . |
| 2 | Apparently following a plea by the newly returned Uniate Cardinal Miroslav Lubachivsky [ see p. 38104-05 ] , Khmara had finally been released pending trial on April 5 after almost five months in investigative custody ( the delay in bringing him to trial resulted from the original indictment having been withdrawn by the prosecution in early March for further investigations ) . |
| 3 | The marriage to Earl Spencer had not been a happy one . |
| 4 | Spencer had always been the favoured one , beloved by mother since his difficult birth made it impossible for her to have any more children . |
| 5 | Cunningham had now been wheeled away to bed by an obliging porter , having reached that maudlin stage of inebriation which is most painful for others to bear . |
| 6 | Wishart had Corbett watched carefully but all the reports indicated that Corbett had not been officially despatched by Edward . |
| 7 | Borg had only been at Meadow Park since late last season , when he was appointed following the dismissal of John Clements . |
| 8 | Like Ari , she had no difficulty accepting the idea Tammuz had once been Ewan , but there was no way she could really feel this odd , crazed man was the one she 'd loved before . |
| 9 | Njiru had apparently been relieved of the chairmanship of a local branch of the ruling Kenya National African Union ( KANU ) in May 1992 . |
| 10 | Pakistan had recently been under some pressure from the USA to formulate a fresh political initiative on Afghanistan . |
| 11 | Hence in the present case Mr. Dennis had not been divested of his interest under the joint tenancy when his wife died . |
| 12 | Todger had never been the same since they got to Hambury . |
| 13 | Bernice had never been down so many corridors before she met the Doctor . |
| 14 | When Douglas MacArthur returned to America , MacArthur had not been back to America since nineteen forty one this is ten years later , he 'd been running Japan in the meantime there was one of these huge ticker-tape parades in New York , he was the welcoming hero and President Truman was seen as the villain and some analysts argue that that decision , that single decision to sack MacArthur may well have cost Harry Truman the American presidency . |
| 15 | Dr Meredith had already been sent for , but his lordship was of the view that my father should be moved out of the sun before the doctor 's arrival ; consequently , a bath-chair arrived and with not a little difficulty , my father was transported into the house . |
| 16 | We was in this railway station and Marie had just been to the dentist . |
| 17 | If Marie had n't been so desperate to escape from that room , she would n't have suggested taking Bella out in her wheelchair . |
| 18 | The nursemaid felt a withdrawal of affection and was hurt , not noticing that the child was shrinking back from all emotional expression ; the hugs and kisses once lavished on Marie had not been transferred to Pamela . |
| 19 | What if Jacqueline Hill had not been available ? |
| 20 | On the morning of Aug. 19 , tanks were sent on to the streets of Moscow and other major cities as it was announced that President Mikhail Gorbachev had effectively been deposed . |
| 21 | Andreeva 's letter was in turn attacked in a lengthy editorial in Pravda on 5 April 1988 , three weeks later and after Gorbachev had reportedly been able to secure the agreement of the Politburo to a considered rebuttal . |
| 22 | Being quite intuitive , I did notice there was a funny tension between Ken Pitt and David and I thought that probably what had happened was that David had not been satisfied performing ‘ When I Live My Dream ’ with the old backing tracks , as he had been working with Tony Visconti and had all these new tunes and productions and ways of doing things in his head . |
| 23 | David had n't been on duty at the factory that afternoon and Rachel had wondered if he would suggest picking her up from her flat and taking her to the hospital , but he had n't , and his failure to do so only emphasised the coolness that was rapidly growing between them . |
| 24 | David had always been a great fashion person as well . |
| 25 | Halliday had not been greatly inspired by the prospect of the women 's issue , and increasingly Rowbotham took over its organization . |
| 26 | Durham born Gregory had only been playing the bass guitar for a few weeks when he joined . |
| 27 | Paatelainen had only been introduced as a substitute but he certainly made his presence felt in no uncertain manner with his 56th minute strike . |
| 28 | Kathleen had never been one for jewellery and the amethyst picked up the heather mauve of Isabel 's new dress and even , she thought , gave something of a fresh nuance to her mist-blue eyes . |
| 29 | But Lord Robertson disallowed his evidence , firstly because of the confidentiality of the client-solicitor relationship ( though Mr Beltrami had already been issued with a waiver for this from the Scottish Law Society ) , secondly because evidence against McGuinness could not be competent as evidence against Waddell . |
| 30 | The suggestion of a ‘ social contract ’ between States had already been made in the first half of the seventeenth century by Grotius . |