Example sentences of "[noun] [vb infin] been [verb] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Would Mr Amos have been pilloried in this way if the other person had been a female ? |
| 2 | But would the story have been told in quite the same way if I had been black , or a woman , or nearer their own age and social background ? |
| 3 | ‘ Could the doctor have been called in the hour of desperate need by an angel who appeared as this woman 's young daughter ? ’ queries Mr Graham . |
| 4 | Saw pits have been recognised in some woods — a late medieval one was excavated in Wetmoor , part of the former Horwood in Gloucestershire . |
| 5 | In all the yelling and argument that followed Jo concluded that Andy the gardener was a starfucker in the literal sense of the term , for what else could her mother have been doing in the pool house at that time of day and why else would she have over-reacted the way she did ? |