Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] [been] [vb pp] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 2 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |
| 3 | Edgar and Isabella Linton had been invited to lunch , and their mother had agreed , on condition that her darlings were kept carefully apart from ‘ that wicked boy ’ . |
| 4 | Becky had been admitted to hospital earlier with a stomach upset and died at her parents ' home the night she was discharged . |
| 5 | Most importantly , since the rail links to Verdun had been severed by artillery fire , he enlarged the road for trucks between Bar-le-Duc and Verdun the ‘ Sacred Way ’ the only supply line to the front . |
| 6 | Sukie had been rushed to hospital after taking an overdose of sleeping tablets , and she had left an incriminating love letter to him . |
| 7 | The District committee relented ; withdrew their objections and Jacques made it clear to Green it was only through his personal intervention and tenacity as the General Secretary that ‘ the WEA had been saved from disaster , and that this agreement represented , in fact , the charter which gives us continued and autonomous existence ’ . |
| 8 | By 5 May 1989 , according to The Times , Khairallah had been replaced as defence minister by General Shanshal . |
| 9 | Neamy had been sentenced to death on April 30 , charged with spying on Palestinian refugees in Iraq after allegedly admitting to working for Mossad , the Israeli secret service . |
| 10 | Blaize had been deposed as leader of the New National Party which he led to a landslide electoral victory under US auspices in 1984 and had defiantly formed a new grouping . |
| 11 | Mountbatten 's especial qualification in Attlee 's eyes for the job of viceroy was his success in getting the Burmese nationalists to come in on the British side in the closing stages of the war ; it was Attlee 's firm belief in later life , as indeed it was Mountbatten 's , that if Mountbatten had been left in charge in Rangoon , Burma would never have left the Commonwealth . |
| 12 | There were reports on March 12 that Najaf and Karbala had been recaptured by government forces after heavy fighting during which large numbers of civilians had died . |
| 13 | But she was relieved to see Patrick thrive at last now that Maggie had been weaned off gin , and when Rosa 's sixth baby arrived she helped with it , gaining experience for when her own time came . |
| 14 | Pringle , of Thirlmere Road , Darlington , was shot in the neck by a police marksman on Tuesday after 21-year-old Leanne Rees had been held at gunpoint for 47 hours . |
| 15 | Altogether , four employees of the Iraqi government and three employees of the BNL had been brought to trial on Feb. 28 , following more than 18 months of investigations by US officials into illegal loans made by US banking institutions to Iraq . |
| 16 | Eva had been selected as youth speaker to welcome him to Brisbane that very weekend . |
| 17 | Lacey had been appointed by Attorney General Barr in October [ see p. 39136 ] with the specific brief of determining whether a fuller investigation was warranted . |
| 18 | Carol had been born at Christmas twenty-seven years ago — how long ago it seemed . |
| 19 | He had experienced this telescoping of time before when working twenty hours a day at the beginning of a murder investigation , but the slowness of passing time still came as a shock : Nicola Sharpe had been stabbed to death less than forty-eight hours before . |
| 20 | Kim had been sentenced to death at her trial in April 1989 after confessing to having planted a bomb on a South Korean airliner which disappeared near the coast of Burma in November 1987 with the loss of all 115 passengers and crew [ see p. 35905 ] . |
| 21 | In August 1964 President Johnson claimed , falsely , that the USS Maddox had been attacked by North Vietnamese gunboats . |
| 22 | It was almost another fortnight before the War Office confirmed that Acting Sergeant John Carrow had been killed in action . |
| 23 | By the time HMS Beagle reached her final port , Charles Darwin had been elevated from obscurity to the status of reputed naturalist . |
| 24 | Corporal Stephen Paterson had been kept in custody for his own safety , along with senior aircraftsman Douglas Bailey since the fire at RAF Hullavington in Wiltshire earlier this month . |
| 25 | Nigel had been summoned for jury duty on the date fixed for the event but his excuse of a prior engagement , whose nature he described , was accepted and he was excused . |
| 26 | Perhaps Mrs Longhill had already written during the days Ruth had been confined to bed . |
| 27 | Irish international Simon Geoghegan rounded off the victory with a smashing late try , but Nial Malone was a reluctant spectator after Paul Burke had been preferred at outhalf . |
| 28 | It was just a few days after eight children from the W family from South Ronaldsay had been taken into care . |
| 29 | A padlock on gates leading into the station from Eversholt Street had been cut in advance . |
| 30 | Architecture taken out of Palladio had been translated into English and published in England in 1663 , as had Gerbier 's Counsel and Advice to Builders . |