Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [num ord] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He had been sacked last week , for the fourth time in a year , after a row with an unpleasant restaurant owner who had a fat pink face that looked about to snort , and chaste little feet on raised heels that he walked on as if they were trotters . |
| 2 | Daleys Dennis is also in action tomorrow , the first eight heats having been completed last night . |
| 3 | I dare say you read in the paper she had been attacked last week by some pervert . ’ |
| 4 | I mean if you 'd have been reported last week for it you would think Yeah I 'm damn sure that 's right , you know . |
| 5 | well it she could 've been done last year but we 've not done this year , be gone . |
| 6 | How many thing had been done last spring that could not be undone ? |
| 7 | Not Beadle 's About , You 've Been Framed next week |
| 8 | The upshot was that Hauptmann Alfred Horn — if that was indeed his name — had been transferred next morning from the Tower to a miserable country house near Aldershot called Mytchett Place , where he was being held under extremely heavy guard . |
| 9 | As the news of the quarrel between the Old King 's sons spread , those who had been defeated last year took fresh courage , while others like Geoffrey of Lusignan , who had previously been too cautious to join the revolt , now decided that their moment had come . |
| 10 | The woman , in her sixties from England , had not been named last night . |
| 11 | DAVID JENKINS has been made first director of Essex Voluntary Association for the Blind . |
| 12 | Chester College is pressing to be allowed the title of university college , but its hopes appeared to have been dashed last month by education junior minister Tim Boswell . |
| 13 | THE marriage of tennis star John McEnroe and Tatum O'Neal seemed to have been saved last night after a series of tantrums . |
| 14 | Grasping her conference handbook tightly , she took her place in the queue where , she had been told last night over supper , she ran the risk of being stripped and searched by an army of discharged traffic wardens . |
| 15 | Peter Harris who has cancer had been told last month he only had weeks to live and has been staying in a hospice . |
| 16 | The sale ( subject to British export control regulations ) was made through Christie 's after the completion of the loan period and after the National Gallery had been offered first refusal . |
| 17 | DAF yesterday won a vital cash injection from the Belgian and Dutch governments , but long-term finance from banks needed to fund a new , slimmer Daf had still not been agreed last night , even although the deadline for agreement is today . |
| 18 | If it 's any comfort , it 's just been sold next door . |
| 19 | I sort of looked on the on the board and saw a thirteen two pony for sale been shown last year so it 's probably a sort of a working man 's pony , you know , that sort of class . |
| 20 | The branch secretary , Kathleen McAlorum , a Motherwell district councillor , said that an emergency meeting of the branch executive had been called last Sunday after complaints and threats of resignation from members over the deal for representation on the European committee of the regions . |
| 21 | The Italian Classic , due to have been played next month , has been moved from its original slot and is in danger of not been played at all . |
| 22 | The long-sought ‘ killer application ’ — aka the next Lotus — may have been born last week : Silicon Valley start-up Arbor Software was at the NT Pavilion at Comdex in Chicago showing off its multi-dimensional spreadsheet . |
| 23 | Long ago , the legend said , the security ( or spy-catching ) service and the espionage ( or spy-hiring ) service had been born next door to each other in rooms 5 and 6 of the corridor where Military Intelligence first nested in Whitehall . |
| 24 | Mr Gummer 's secret mission to the States emerged when David Curry MP , his number two at the Ministry of Agriculture , deputised at a dairy trade luncheon where he indicated that the bill to reform agricultural marketing which should have been introduced last week is likely to enter Parliament before Christmas . |
| 25 | The police say he 'd been arrested last month and questioned about threats to Mrs Smith , but he 'd been released on police bail pending further enquiries . |
| 26 | Current chairman Nazmu Virani is on remand having been charged last week with conspiracy in connection with the Bank of Credit and Commerce International . |
| 27 | At the end of the parade — almost at once — it was announced that ‘ Red Riding Hood ’ and her ‘ wolf ’ had been awarded first prize in the parade , and would the winner , Angela Norcroft , of the 3rd Shortfields Pack kindly come to the prize-giving tent in half an hour 's time for her prize — a bicycle ? |
| 28 | The speech might have been delivered last week . |
| 29 | Mr Li is believed to have been criticised last year by China 's senior leader , Deng Xiaoping , for his caution on the economy . |
| 30 | Brian had been drunk last night , certainly , but there had been no dog 's abuse out of him . |