Example sentences of "[Wh pn] [vb past] [been] [verb] to [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Shit all over the floor and the walls , " said a twenty-one-year-old machinist who 'd been banished to Coventry 's notorious Woodend estate . |
| 2 | Mr McCrystal , 68 , of Langlands Road , Govan , appeared at many meetings and on television to argue that thousands of workers who had been exposed to asbestos were now being denied justice . |
| 3 | Tensions were raised on Jan. 26 when Achmet Sadiq , a leader of the Moslem minority who had been elected to Parliament in June 1989 but disqualified from the November election on procedural grounds , and another Moslem parliamentary candidate were found guilty of " inciting violence and dissension " and using the word " Turkish " in their campaign manifestos . |
| 4 | Two more Kurdish deputies who had been elected to parliament as members of the Social Democratic Populist Party ( SHP ) resigned from the party on May 29 , to continue as independents . |
| 5 | The Ukrainian federalist Mykola ( Nikolai ) Kostomarov , who had been banished to Saratov after the exposure of the Kirillo-Methodian Society in 1847 , became a Professor of History at St Petersburg University in 1859 . |
| 6 | His eldest son Theuderic ( 511 – 33 ) ruled from Rheims , and the sons who had been born to Chlothild , Chlodomer ( 511 – 24 ) , Childebert I ( 511 – 58 ) and Chlothar I ( 511 – 61 ) , ruled from Orléans , Paris and Soissons respectively . |
| 7 | Michael White of the Guardian likened Amaranth to Venus rising from the foam , Bruce Anderson to the spirit of enterprise , while Lord Wyatt of Weeford , who had been sent to Brighton for the Telegraph , wrote that he had been ‘ captivated ’ by a performance which by its daring and originality had brought an otherwise dull Tory conference startlingly to life . |
| 8 | His trained pet poodle who had been sent to Europe to reconnoitre the scene and steal Mark 's clothes . |
| 9 | Both the latter films were made by Walter Booth for Charles Urban , an American who had been sent to Britain in order to look after Edison 's interests , then set up on his own as a distributor and exporter of French and American films . |
| 10 | The finders of this bombshell were two Justice Department officials , Brad Reynolds and John Richardson , who had been sent to North 's office to look through papers relating to the shipments to Iran . |
| 11 | No such worries crossed the mind of the Prussian Major who had been sent to Brussels with news of the French advance and details of the Prussian response . |
| 12 | The 50 unarmed UN military observers who had been sent to Mogadishu in July remained in the country , although on Aug. 6 they were reported still to be unable to leave their compound due problems of transport . |
| 13 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 14 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 15 | Before the financial axe fell in 1976 , occasional shafts of light shone through the darkening sky : the old women 's prison at Holloway was demolished and replaced on the same site by a completely new prison stressing medical supervision ; whilst at Grendon Underwood the Prison Service pioneered a special establishment for the treatment and management of mentally abnormal offenders who had been sentenced to imprisonment . |
| 16 | No action was taken against Donald E. Lukens ( Rep. , Ohio ) who had been sentenced to prison for between 30 and 180 days and fined $1,000 in June for having sexual relations with a teenage girl below the age of consent [ ibid . ] . |
| 17 | Many political prisoners who had been sentenced to death or life imprisonment after unfair trials following the 1980 coup will continue to serve sentences of up to 20 years . |
| 18 | In the fifties Khomeini attempted , vainly to obtain clemency for members of the Islamic fedayeen ( the precursor of Islamic jihad and Hezbollah which came to prominence in Lebanon in the 1980's ) who had been sentenced to death for assassinating prominent members of the Shah regime . |
| 19 | The Council of State on Jan. 20 , 1990 , granted an amnesty to 22 of those detained for their part in the coup attempt of Oct. 17 , 1985 [ see p. 34217 ] ; 16 were freed unconditionally , while the remainder , who had been sentenced to death and had had their sentences commuted to 15 years ' imprisonment , remained under house arrest . |
| 20 | As the M.D. indicates , he was a physician , and the committee specified that Griffith J. Griffiths , who had been appointed to Goldington district , and who later became the senior surgeon at Bedford General Hospital , should be co-opted in cases where major surgery was required . |
| 21 | There was the wife of a Communist who had been stabbed to death in Oslo . |
| 22 | That was not altogether surprising given that , as a KGB officer who had been posted to London for six years , it would be astonishing if he had not . ’ |
| 23 | For the first time they had a doctor with them , Malcolm Pleydell , who had been posted to L Detachment and had completed his parachute training . |
| 24 | ‘ It 's funny how one associates places with irrelevant things , ’ said Penelope , who had been listening to Sophia 's probings with a kind of fascinated horror . |
| 25 | He had got my address from Aline , who had been moved to Marcus to replace Gwenellen , who had flu . |
| 26 | In his absence Airikyan , who had been expelled to Ethiopia but had settled in Los Angeles [ see p. 36489 ] , had been elected in May to the Armenian Supreme Soviet . |
| 27 | He left his Kensington house to his wife , formerly Mary Everton , whom he had married about 1706 , and a legacy to their son William , who had been apprenticed to Philip Miller in 1722 . |
| 28 | Encouraged by his studies of A Practical Treatise on Rail-Roads , by Nicholas Wood [ q.v. ] , he quickly realized the great potential future of steam locomotive traction and in 1837 he joined Charles Todd , who had been apprenticed to James Fenton of the locomotive builders Fenton , Murray & Jackson , and David Laird , a farmer and financier , in establishing Todd , Kitson & Laird at the Railway foundry in Leeds , manufacturers of machinery and locomotives . |
| 29 | The vacancy had been occasioned by the untimely departure of James Haldane , the professor of church history at St. Andrews , who had been burned to death in his room after retiring for the night leaving a candle burning . |
| 30 | Perhaps none of it was very good , but it was at least the beginning of something true in the lives of people who had been educated to falsity . |