Example sentences of "[vb past] been under the " in BNC.
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| 1 | He 'd been under the ice , under the water , for ten minutes or more . |
| 2 | No such co-operation was possible in the sphere of taxation , but then it never had been under the Tsars , so Bolshevik extortion seemed hardly more arbitrary than previous methods . |
| 3 | Hounslow councillors say they had been under the impression that relations between them and the police were slowly improving , although Mr Wetzel and John Connolly , the influential chair of housing , continue to boycott the statutory police consultative group . |
| 4 | He had been under the erroneous impression that Europe was just one big common market , similar in size to the United States , operating under free trade concepts , and with common laws , rules and regulations . |
| 5 | But now he was n't making excuses , stating facts that had been under the surface all the time . |
| 6 | The many part-time farmers in Germany had been under the same economic pressures as their counterparts in the UK in recent years . |
| 7 | I had been under the impression that Smith 's did n't stock SR at all , so well did they hide it . |
| 8 | But the other two main additions to the new kingdom — Slovenia and Croatia — had been under the rule of Austria or Hungary for approximately the same period of time . |
| 9 | The worst thing was that the tape was on metal spools and the resulting damage was not a complete wipe : there were still tantalising fragments of the recording left where the tape had been under the metal ‘ spokes ’ of the reel , I would be interested to know if this legend is true . |
| 10 | While the history of the press has been marked by cleavages between the rulers and the ruled , radio had been under the control of colonial administrators . |
| 11 | For a hundred years or so before the birth of Jesus , Palestine had been under the rule of the Romans . |
| 12 | She wanted to check , but Sharpe pushed her through a gap in a straggling hedgerow and spurred her across an undulating pasture which , years before , had been under the plough and the old furrows still formed corrugations that faced Sharpe like waves of pale grass . |
| 13 | The Reconciled Dominions had been under the control of Yzordderrex 's Autarch for over a century , and every time Godolphin returned from a trip he had new signs of unrest to report . |
| 14 | Bécherel had been under the command of one of his retainers , and another had been Constable of Saint-Sauveur , though in all probability he had not been involved in its surrender . |
| 15 | Hitherto such bodies had been under the sway of the main committee chairman , but now they began to acquire a life of their own . |
| 16 | By contrast , the regulation of the international economy in earlier periods had been under the domination of London , pivoting around London 's capital markets and the pound sterling which acted as the main form of international money . |
| 17 | The libretto , which had been lying in his drawer for years , had been written by a M. Frontenac , who had known Alain-Fournier personally , and had been under the spell of his novel since it first appeared in 1913 . |
| 18 | The Jewish community continued to be led by the Chief Rabbi , as it had been under the Byzantine emperors . |
| 19 | The thought hammered in my brain that I had been under the impression that I was fit . |
| 20 | She had always believed there would be someone special — for a while she had been under the illusion that that someone was Marcus . |
| 21 | However , the allegation that Hazelwood had been under the influence of alcohol at the time of the disaster was contradicted by a number of witnesses at his trial , which opened in Anchorage , Alaska , on Jan. 29 , 1990 , after a six-month delay . |
| 22 | In 613 the kingdom was reunited , as it had been under the previous Chlothar in 558 . |
| 23 | The rather frayed drapes , either side of the tall windows , had a silky sheen in the soft lamplight , the scratched furniture and the threadbare state of the rugs no longer as visible as they had been under the brilliant glare of the harsh overhead light . |
| 24 | ‘ Tommy told us that she had been under the water and he had to do something to save her . |
| 25 | The defence counsel , William Totten , told the High Court in Edinburgh that Storrie had been under the influence of drink and drugs at the time of the offences . |