Example sentences of "been [verb] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ This particular evening we 'd been to see the latest Lloyd Webber musical and I was high on the music , treading on air … ’ |
| 2 | And leading the way on the one-mile hike through the park was a Belfast man who has been helping the Ulster-led Everest expedition walk to the top of the world . |
| 3 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 4 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 5 | A PIANIST of 14 , from Chestfield , Kent , has been named the 1992 BBC Young Musician of the Year . |
| 6 | Top and Elton John lookalike pulls the crowds on the Omnibus stand ; centre Polygon 's editorial director Marion Sinclair left and publicist Kathryn Maclean were delighted to hear that Polygon had been named the 1993 Sunday Times Small Publisher of the Year . |
| 7 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 8 | The loan had been to buy the second-hand Sierra , and then had been topped up to cover repairs required by the M.O.T. ; and then increased again when Sara 's Mini had just died on her , expired in the middle of the village with 110,000 miles on the tombstone . |
| 9 | There 's little room at the top of the tower , this year celebrating it 's 500th anniversary , but the choiristers have been performing the traditional May Carol there for centuries . |
| 10 | The reason is United have been allocated the entire East End . |
| 11 | This year , we have been running the general SVQ at level I for around 36 students in S5 — and we 're very pleased with the way it 's gone . |
| 12 | Hell , America 's Jayhawks have been stoking the old C&W fire for almost eight years now . |
| 13 | Settis has impeccably international credentials for such an international institution , having held , among other posts , professorships in classical art and archaeology at the University of Pisa and Scuola Normale Superiore , served on the faculty of the Ecole Normale Superiéure at Paris and in1991 having been appointed the first Warburg Professor at the University of Hamburg . |
| 14 | Omagh boss Paul Kee had been chasing the tall Limerick central defender for more than a fortnight . |
| 15 | Tam Dalyell has been reading the second Brandt report |
| 16 | He and his wife had been involved in offering support and assistance to the family whose eight children had been removed the previous November . |
| 17 | Koerner has been awarded the 1992 Mitchell Prize of $15,000 for Caspar David Friedrich and the subject of landscape ( Reaktion Books , London , and Yale University Press , London and New Haven , 1990 ) and Galassi the Eric Mitchell Prize of $5000 for an outstanding first book by a promising scholar for Corot in Italy , ( also published by Yale , 1991 ) . |
| 18 | A Quiche Indian woman from Guatemala who has achieved worldwide recognition by speaking out against the oppression of her people has been awarded the 1992 Nobel Peace Prize . |
| 19 | Exiled Nigerian poet Olu Oguibe has been awarded the All Africa Okigbo Prize for Literature for his collection A Gathering Fear ( Kraft Books ) . |
| 20 | THE internationally renowned Kenyan environmentalist , has been awarded the fifth Edinburgh Medal at a special ceremony . |
| 21 | The Brazilian pastor Carlos Dreher has been awarded the 1991 Wilhelm-Sebastian-Schmerl prize for his outstanding contribution to Protestant media work in a German speaking context . |
| 22 | The Guido Donegani Institute , the corporate R&D arm of EniChem , in conjunction with Italsolar and the University of Milan , has been awarded the 1991 Philip Morris prize for scientific and technological research . |
| 23 | Professor James D Halloran has been awarded the 1991 McLuhan Teleglobe Canada Award . |
| 24 | The teacher has been playing the Pied Piper , the children a group from Hamelin negotiating for the release of the children — " How would you describe the way the Pied Piper spoke to you ? |
| 25 | That January issue was the ‘ Revolutionary Oz ’ , complete with Quattrocchi on the Russian Revolution ; Widgery on the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara , who had been killed the previous October in the Bolivian jungle , and whose name Widgery and Oz spelt throughout as ‘ Geuvara ’ ; and even John Wilcock , whose ‘ Other scenes ’ reappeared in that issue , put in a piece on Regis Debray . |
| 26 | He appealed for information from anyone who had witnessed the incident , particularly people who might have been leaving the nearby Greenstead social club at about the same time . |
| 27 | Criticism arrangement and pointed out that William Hay had only been elected the first DUP mayor after being nominated for the fifth time . |