Example sentences of "a man had been " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 2 | There was a similar reaction after several bodies went missing from Britain 's biggest cemetery in Surrey in April 1988 , even after a man had been arrested and charged for decapitating a disinterred corpse . |
| 3 | One said that a man had been approached to carry out a contract killing on Freddie , but he refused because he liked him . |
| 4 | If she heard on the News that a man had been murdered here , she might have thought it was me . |
| 5 | And on Christmas Day night Harriet and a man had been locked in passionate embrace behind those windows and she , Meredith , had glimpsed them . |
| 6 | The limbless barrel of a man had been removed from his bronze flowerpot , freed from the loam of lead . |
| 7 | At the other extreme of the street , Mr Patel was able to confirm that a man had been working the previous day , and that morning , on the Ford Capri that was still there , still with the bonnet raised , still with a plastic bag on the battery . |
| 8 | Opponents argued that the cellars were used for punishment purposes , and Special Branch alleged that a man had been seriously wounded by a knife in the stomach after horseplay between fascists at Black House . |
| 9 | A man had been walking over the ground outside . |
| 10 | This bespectacled bear of a man had been born and lived here all his life , and was now Makassar 's sole expert and international exporter of the rare shells and orchids for which the archipelago had once been so famous . |
| 11 | Because of a mild affection for a tart he now seemed unable even to make love to , he was going to confront a man he knew to be a murderer with copies of the photographs for which a man had been killed . |
| 12 | If a man had been repeatedly unsuccessful he would go to the river , dive to the bottom and bring up a lump of clay with which he would mark his forehead , taking care to be unobserved , otherwise the spell lost its efficacy . |
| 13 | The one o'clock news included a brief statement that a man had been detained early that morning while attempting to board a cross-Channel ferry at Dover and was helping police with their enquiries into the murder of Angelica Caroli , found stabbed in her Gloucestershire home the previous Thursday . |
| 14 | Tit-for-tat exchanges between the communities of Cairo did not necessarily end just because a man had been killed . |
| 15 | Police said a man had been arrested and was today being questioned . |