Example sentences of "and be [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Someone who had called on Angy , found her groomed and perfumed and ready to receive a rival , and been moved to uncontrollable violence by the belief that she had been unfaithful ? |
| 2 | The headman of a nearby village had saved the life of one of the Greeks and been rewarded by the Government . |
| 3 | A month after the wedding , he had lost the municipal election at Shoreditch and been dismissed as Director of Propaganda by Mosley . |
| 4 | Their leader , Thorez , had deserted from the army and been stripped of his citizenship in 1939 . |
| 5 | Slatter had probably slipped in with the crowd and been served by his wife while he was grabbing a swift meal in the kitchen . |
| 6 | It is clear that they had already formulated their ideas and been moving towards confirming them , but the definite proof still awaited the energy sensitive neutron spectrometer . |
| 7 | They have emerged in , and been sustained by , society , and are on offer in institutions because they reflect certain kinds of social interest . |
| 8 | Rioja told them that the victims had been caught in acts of sodomy and been condemned by the camp council . |
| 9 | One could not help respecting the man who still stood firmly for his rights , after having fought and suffered and been defeated in the struggle for their maintenance . ’ |
| 10 | The result was an emphatic seven-try victory over a courageous side who , over the past few months in their own colours and in their other incarnation as the Canadian national team , have overwhelmed Japan and the United States and been pipped by Wales and Ireland ( minus their Lions ) after surrendering leads late on . |
| 11 | A renowned ( albeit not a very successful ) crusader who had been on three expeditions , he had met and been entertained by the ablest monarchs in Europe . |
| 12 | As is often the case , some last-minute idea blossoms while what had seemed a brilliant solution and been pondered for ages falls quite flat . |
| 13 | The old warrior had steered the realm of Ulthuan through its greatest crisis and held the kingdom together when it could have easily splintered and been conquered . |
| 14 | 14–5–1844 " The Session considering that James Gibson , under process for the crime of fornication , ( with Ann Darroch ) , has submitted to the discipline of the Church , appeared publically and been rebuked before the congregation , and hoping from the professions he now makes , as well as the readiness with which he submitted to discipline , that he is penitent , do now absolve him from censure and admit him to the enjoyment of privileges . " |
| 15 | Its destruction and decay may have lodged in folk memory and been Christianised into the version we have today . |
| 16 | David Kahanamoku , Duke 's nephew , had already broken his ankle in the November swell at Waimea and been fished out of the Bay by Michael Willis . |
| 17 | Few men can have served a Czar and been feted by an Emperor . |
| 18 | Having played a practice round with Nicklaus on Wednesday and been trailed by Jack 's Pack , today it was Arnie 's Army . |
| 19 | The tentative diagnosis was that he had been too close to Daine 's fantasies and been subsumed into the structure of the Dream . |
| 20 | Some of these cuddly toys , like the one featured in this project , had arrived in someone 's childhood as a gift from Grandma , and been loved to bits by its owner . |
| 21 | It seems that even if you have loved and been loved , there could well have been some loss to bear in the recent past . |
| 22 | Ask anyone who 's lived in a former British colony — English culture has been imposed on and been absorbed by countries on every continent on this earth . |
| 23 | This is exacerbated by the fact that capitalism has developed and been maintained throughout the twentieth century and is a very different system from that when Marx and Engels were writing . |
| 24 | ‘ You would n't believe the number of times I 've offered the beastly things a sugar lump and been nipped like billyo in return . ’ |
| 25 | To Bobby Hunt , Minton wrote : ‘ We 've done and been done by Venice , Padua , Rome , Florence and now on the Côte , dare I say d'Azur . |
| 26 | Both Price Waterhouse and now Touche Ross have dallied with the Deloitte domestic partnership and been given the cold shoulder . |
| 27 | ‘ Having committed one offence and been given a criminal recordfor innocent hacking , they may feel that they might as well get in a bit deeper . ’ |
| 28 | ‘ On the contrary , he said advertisements had their good points ; he had written a poem about Steyr automobiles and been given a car for it . |
| 29 | As it is , having escaped this poisoned chalice and been given a good excuse to get rid of a woefully implausible leader , it is still very much in business to fight another day . |
| 30 | When the man had had his face washed ( by stella ) and been given a drink , and one of the barmen had called for a taxi , Mother got right up and got on the stage and told Gary she was ready for her song now . |