Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] another [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 2 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 3 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 4 | She had been swopped with another baby 13 years before in a tragic hospital blunder . |
| 5 | A 13 year old boy from Kent described as ‘ borderline autistic ’ reported to his mother that he had been buggered by another pupil at his residential school . |
| 6 | On Sept. 17 it was announced that the defence and economic co-operation accord between the USA and Turkey had been extended for another year . |
| 7 | He spoke to the officer on desk duty who said that a complaint against Russell had been made at another station . |
| 8 | She was happily thinking , Serves him right , a pity there was n't a cloudburst , when across the car park , in an area where the top managers of Vasey 's normally parked their cars , she noticed that room had been made for another car . |
| 9 | Among these well-tended plots , with their laden fruit trees , it was out of place and ill at ease ; as though it had been transplanted from another age or a backward planet . |
| 10 | Mr. Long also said that Mr. Thurgood had helped calm things down when the fight , which had been caused by another customer , broke out . |
| 11 | The couches and armchairs had been moved into another room . |
| 12 | In a confidential statement to the council 's investigating committee Mr Horn said he had suffered stress since more than half of his duties had been transferred to another education unit in 1989 . |
| 13 | Every kind of reason for it went through her mind : the doctor had given him six months to live , his family was moving away from the area , he had been transferred to another school . |
| 14 | By 1988 Field End had been joined by another specialist children 's respite care unit at Leigh Road . |
| 15 | The court was told Tania had been living with another man , Robert Cross , for five months . |
| 16 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 17 | If coal was just another industry or a medium-sized company in the private sector whose product was not as much in demand as previously , or had been superseded by another product that it could not make or compete with it , that industry or company would slim down or might even close altogether — with the same tragic effect on families and communities as has been seen in the coal industry . |
| 18 | But she had told him his daughter had been fathered by another man and she had tried to separate him from his main interest in life , the Club . |
| 19 | An apparent suicide note found in the house on the day she died claimed the child had been fathered by another man . |
| 20 | The same scheme had been tried at another camp with four ladders . |
| 21 | It was apparently replaced with the claim that Edward 's children were illegitimate , because Edward , before his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville , had been betrothed to another woman . |
| 22 | It was apparently replaced with the claim that Edward 's children were illegitimate , because Edward , before his marriage to Elizabeth Woodville , had been betrothed to another woman . |
| 23 | His attention had been taken by another notice outside the Town Hall . |
| 24 | The estate had been willed to another prisoner , a distant cousin , on the clear understanding that should it ever be returned to Jewish hands , the monies and profits taken from it would be devoted to the creation of a Zionist state . |
| 25 | However , the same test had been used by another group of workers who found that 25 of 124 ( 20% ) patients studied were seropositive for H pylori despite the absence of the organisms in their gastric biopsy specimens ; 20 of the 25 false positive cases had atrophic gastritis . |
| 26 | Towards the end of field-work , after a neighbourhood policeman had been murdered in another area , which up until then had been considered ‘ soft ’ , with no threat from terrorists , Easton 's neighbourhood men began going out in threes , with two men providing cover , so that only a third of beat time was devoted to each neighbourhood patch . |
| 27 | He was arrested three weeks later in possession of a giro cheque which had been stolen from another woman mugged in nearby Old Kent Road . |
| 28 | If the animal had been stolen from another district , and its owner did not as a result claim it , thieves could buy the fully-documented animal for a nominal sum . |
| 29 | Another British Embassy man was there , and the principal host was a Mr Hu from the Ministry of Education ( our previous dinner had been hosted by another Mr Hu , who the embassy designates as ‘ Mr thin Hu ’ as opposed to ‘ Mr fat Hu ’ ) . |
| 30 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |