Example sentences of "have just [be] [verb] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | In this case the unnatural occurrence is that my black-hearted old dad has just been striped by the Lloyds Bank Access card mafia , and is taking it quietly . |
| 2 | Although written many years ago , Lady Chatterley 's Lover has just been reissued by the Grove Press , and this pictorial account of the day by day life of an English game-keeper is full of considerable interest to outdoor-minded readers as it contains many passages on pheasant raising , the apprehending of poachers , ways to control vermin and other chores and duties of the professional game-keeper . |
| 3 | Well , that very technological breakthrough has just been made by a British company . |
| 4 | The first global report on air and water pollution , food contamination and their effects on health has just been prepared by the United Nations Environment Programme . |
| 5 | A survey * of studies of costs has just been published by the OECD 's general economics division ( which shows how mainstream economists are being drawn into what was once a green ghetto ) . |
| 6 | Research in assessment IX has just been published by the Assessment Group of the Education Division . |
| 7 | Keith Fuller has just been picked by the News of the World from 1,000 entries as THE British answer to the new President . |
| 8 | He has just been pulverized by a being from the other side of the galaxy and what does he do ? |
| 9 | you 're still interested in , I do n't know whether you 're still interested in speaking but erm , we 've just been approached by the A N C , they 're pulling everybody back , there 's , everybody 's going home . |
| 10 | He had no income when he married The Maid of Bath , the singer Miss Linley , but he used the £3,000 she had just been given by a disappointed but grateful , rich admirer , to buy a grand house in London 's fashionable Portman Square , and furnish it lavishly . |
| 11 | She had just been shaken by a ‘ terrible adventure ’ . |
| 12 | ‘ It could be the killer was somebody who had just been passing by the apartment block . ’ |
| 13 | Anthony Honoré , retiring Oxford Regius Professor of Civil Law , had just been canvassed by the appointments secretary when I visited him in his panelled rooms at All Souls . |
| 14 | 30th March 1808 ‘ saw a woman on Blackfriar 's Bridge who had just been killed by a horse which had run away — the horse was stopped just about half way between that market and the bridge , drank tea and supped with Mr. Hills — Mr. Pyne was there — met Mr. Reinagle ’ . |
| 15 | Sergeant Elie Tardivel tells how in June seven men from a neighbouring platoon had just been killed by a single French 155 shell . |
| 16 | Questioned about why she had not sought help immediately after the alleged attack , she said : ‘ I had just been raped by a policeman , and I did not trust no police after that . ’ |
| 17 | It had just been wiped by a sullen black woman in a nylon overall , from whom the sergeant tried in vain to extract a smile , and the police officers sat back to allow it to dry before resting their elbows on the surface . |
| 18 | Its functioning power had just been reduced by a factor of one . |
| 19 | A group of people have just been arrested by the railway Cheka for trying to travel without tickets , yet our peasant notes how the wife of a Roslavl' party member flourishes an authorization for a free pass typed out on a Tsarist form . |
| 20 | Papers delivered by Edward Fry , Theodore Reff , Mark Roskill and other experts at that exhibition 's symposium have just been published by the museum . |
| 21 | Nurses at the infirmary have just been praised by the Audit Commission for their work on discharge planning , and a group of sisters in the orthopaedic unit confirmed that they had long taken this seriously . |
| 22 | I am not , I have just been duped by a clever story-telling girl ’ — Jean Wallace , who runs the Blackpool hotel where runaway schoolgirl Nicola Rogers , 13 , stayed . |
| 23 | They 're just taking a well-earned break from publicising the Lifeline Africa Appeal that 's just been launched by the Northampton-based charity , World Vision . |