Example sentences of "to [art] [noun] and been " in BNC.
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| 1 | The targets of these attacks , beatings , kidnappings and murders have been trade unionists , peasants ( especially those involved in campaigns for land redistribution and resistance to recruitment into civil defence patrols ) and Indians who have given themselves up to the army and been taken to resettlement areas after years of living in hiding in the mountains . |
| 2 | Twenty-five years after the war ended a man had gone in to the shop and been told that his treasure was studded with spinels instead of rubies . |
| 3 | It was not then but ten minutes afterwards , when he had spoken to the solicitor and been assured there was no mistake , that Lewis began to dislike his son . |
| 4 | It is pitiful to see the agony of a naïve dog that has nosed up too close to a skunk and been sprayed in the face . |
| 5 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |