Example sentences of "been [vb pp] [conj] [verb] at [art] " in BNC.

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1 On Oct. 19 the United Kingdom and US embassies in Ankara investigated allegations by a group of Christian evangelists who claimed that they had been blindfolded and tortured at a police station in Ankara .
2 Her hair had been plaited and coiled at the back of her head , but there was no mistaking her for Han .
3 A factor for some of us in so doing was the fact that we have been saddened and sickened at the supermarkets ' attitudes in exploiting the European difficulty .
4 A week later we were contacted by Ormskirk police who said the car had been stolen and sold at an auction at Haydock . ’
5 Seven years after the Americans bombed Libya , a veteran peace campaigner has been arrested while protesting at the airbase used for the raid .
6 Some aspects of the nature of the site have already been discussed when looking at the effect of the building regulations .
7 The Hungarian Foreign Minister , Mr Gyula Horn , broke his country 's silence on the crisis to say that several hundred people had been killed or wounded at the weekend .
8 However , where the goods have been destroyed or stolen at a time when they were at the buyer 's risk ( see paragraph 3–36 ) , then of course he is under a duty to pay , even though delivery is impossible .
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