Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [art] [noun] and " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been to see a palmist and shown him her photo . |
| 2 | ‘ I 've been to see the referee and he told me to ask the linesman because it was his decision . |
| 3 | Have you been trawling the sales and picking up every urn and tub that caught your fancy ? |
| 4 | Luckily for him , Amelia 's bodybuilding freak had been handling the entryphone and was there to pull her off him . |
| 5 | But the tawdry image of urban renewal has been given a facelift and can now return , again with all the metaphoric power of seasonal fecundity . |
| 6 | They have been given a confidence and liveliness through the influence of a common interpretation of Quantum Theory . |
| 7 | He had been given a rifle and Ivan taught him how to shoot . |
| 8 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 9 | The Full Federal Court allowed the appeal on the ground that there had been no breach of natural justice as the respondents had been given a hearing and , in the opinion of one Judge , had not been deprived of any present benefit or advantage . |
| 10 | Where is Q P9 ? papers rustling This one I think we should give a little thought , because this is the one I think where oh yes this is going to get complicated because I have now been given a quiff and a few suggestion forms about it |
| 11 | Mike , who has been given a car and a house by his new employers , has yet to see his new surroundings , and it will certainly be a journey into the unknown . |
| 12 | And erm not only er do I think that er she 'll probably be reasonably good with , with finals I 'm absolutely sure that her course reports from , you know , all the places where she 's been will be better than most of the other candidates , you know , because she brings home these , the these reports , you know , and she says it looks alright , you know , beginning of the course Nurse is lacking in this or has not got that or is not , you know , you think mm pretty the end of the course Nurse got the hang of , is very good , has done this , has done that , has supported this and you think mm pretty , well that 's lovely you know but she did n't have the experience during the whatever , she had been given the experience and the end of it brilliant |
| 13 | If an offender , even a very young offender , has been given the benefit and assistance of probation and has been given a community service order , what is the court to do when he comes back again and again and again ? |
| 14 | Employees have been given the time and the skills to match their responsibilities . |
| 15 | Police have been using a helicopter and tracker dogs to search for a man who attempted to grab a young boy . |
| 16 | One of my students had been using the machine and she had n't been knitting tuck , so the tuck brushes had been put out of work . |
| 17 | Once the check-outs had been completed the pilots and planes moved to Naval Air Station North Island in San Diego where they were put aboard the USS Yorktown for the carrier filming . |
| 18 | He was a bulky man and had been walking the streets and the sweat was running off him . |
| 19 | Two weeks later comes the West End début of an actress who has been brightening the fringe and television sets for several years now : 26-year old Serena Gordon . |
| 20 | The government 's answer had been to increase the responsibilities and accountability of management and put a good deal of political energy into the efficiency strategy . |
| 21 | Springsteen was out but there were tell-tale signs that he 'd been ruling the roost and no evidence that he was pining for my return . |
| 22 | Ed Esber , former chairman and chief executive of Ashton-Tate Corp , has been named the president and chief operating officer of the Milpitas-based Creative Labs Inc subsidiary of the Singapore Soundblaster firm . |
| 23 | First , take the point made by Mr. Holloway from Germany , who says that South Africa ( they should have been granted a dispensation and welcomed to World Cup 1991 ) must surely go through the full qualifying process for 1995 . |
| 24 | Slaven claimed he had been made the scapegoat and vowed to blast Boro to promotion given the chance . |
| 25 | The fact we have got a good track record and have been serving the pharmaceuticals and fine chemicals industries for some time means we can get work but we have to cut our margins . |
| 26 | US intelligence reports of ‘ northern redoubts ’ where Cuban advisers have been training the militia and storing arms and ammunition could also mean a far longer military operation than the Pentagon had originally envisaged . |
| 27 | The soldiers have been training the police and military in anti-narcotics operations to slow the export of cocaine into America . |
| 28 | Marriage breakdowns — if your partner has been paying the rent and leaves you , you may still be protected from eviction ; a solicitor will help . |
| 29 | The aim of this chapter has been to discuss the opportunities and problems associated with ward learning . |
| 30 | POSTSCRIPT : As I write I have just been handed a newspaper and I see that at the Court of Appeal in London on April 30th , the following transpired ‘ Trade Unions scored a notable victory in their fight to maintain collective bargaining yesterday when the Court of Appeal said employers had no right to discriminate against workers who refused to sign personal contracts ’ . |