Example sentences of "which he [verb] been [adv] [vb pp] " in BNC.
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1 | A MAN told the High Court sitting in Glasgow yesterday of an ordeal at an Argyll quarry during which he had been repeatedly beaten , burnt with a cigarette , had a car driven over his legs and almost hanged . |
2 | He displayed gratification through all the entertainments that took place during and after the feast , and took the floor with the rest during the slow , formal dancing , in which he had been well taught by the various females attracted to his brake and his burrow . |
3 | Further , he cited the recent decision of In re A. ( Minors ) ( Abduction : Custody Rights ) [ 1992 ] Fam. 106 , in which Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. considered the context in which the return of a child to the country from which he had been unlawfully removed should be approached . |
4 | He drew back , however , from an earlier announcement that there would be an easing of the law to allow 16-year-olds to buy condoms , saying that this idea ( for which he had been fiercely criticized in the week before the conference by Roman Catholic bishops ) was only a proposal to be examined . |
5 | It was his eighth goal in 10 games of a season in which he has been badly affected by injury and left out of Taylor 's plans because of a question mark over his match-fitness . |
6 | His theme is memory , a faculty with which he has been prodigiously blessed , though his origins as ‘ the child of Russian Jews from New Jersey ’ are held rather as a noble refusal to forget . |