Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] put under " in BNC.
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| 1 | He accepted they had thought the flat was empty and had been put under pressure by Allen to start the fire by squirting petrol through the letterbox . |
| 2 | The covered market which was situated on the corner of Chiswick High Road and Linden Gardens since the open market on that south side of the High Road had been put under its cover , was not popular and , in 1937 , it was closed and the site used for a new Station for Ambulances and Fire-Engines . |
| 3 | He had been put under the tutelage of Sergeant Bragg , a great bear of a man , a man whose principles would not allow him to stoop to the self-serving tactics of his superiors . |
| 4 | The voters had been put under ‘ enormous pressure ’ by politicians , the media and the business community , and they would regret yielding to their advice . |
| 5 | She reported that her supper had been a few broad beans swimming in oil , that the bread was stale and that she had been put under a woman who did n't know starch from steam . |
| 6 | Mussolini 's visit passed off without incident , mainly because many people suspected of anti-Fascist sentiments had been put under arrest and because there were large numbers of security men mingling with the crowds . |
| 7 | On Nov. 10 a police statement said that " all sensitive install-ations " in the country had been put under 24-hour guard . |
| 8 | He was acquitted on all counts after the court heard the boy in question , by then a young man , had been put under pressure to testify by the FBI and the district attorney . |
| 9 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could ‘ name names ’ and that elected members had told him that they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |
| 10 | Mr Murphy , who works for the housing department as a caretaker for a group of flats in Coatbridge and is a shop steward for the National Union of Public Employees , said at the time that he could name names and that elected members had told him they had been put under pressure when short-leeting jobs . |