Example sentences of "[pron] have been [verb] by " in BNC.
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| 1 | Dave Herriot , now 67 , convener of shop stewards at Walkerburn when the mill crashed , said : ‘ Everyone has been sickened by the way the system has treated us . |
| 2 | Those who do not believe in delegation to committees argue that each of them has been elected by the public to watch their interests and therefore they should each have a voice in the decisions of every committee . |
| 3 | The second edition of this guide to medicines for older people and those who help care for them has been published by Age Concern England . |
| 4 | Before I 'd been salvaged by Martinho and Mrs Goreng they 'd had a Frenchman and a Philadelphian about three years previous who 'd written uncomfortable stuff about starving kids , flattened villages , and summary executions . |
| 5 | ‘ Look , ’ I said , turning sharply on her and utilizing advice I 'd been given by Charlie about the treatment of women : Keep 'em keen , treat 'em mean . |
| 6 | That I 'd been abused by my brother too . |
| 7 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 8 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 9 | I 'd been trained by the P-PRD Division . |
| 10 | Oh , it was eighteen months I should imagine , I was doing quite well , I 'd been praised by the head electrician and everything , for further advancement till er that particular incident stopped it . |
| 11 | On the other hand , I 'd been pulled by the cops for reasons not yet clear but had something to do with enigmatic Jo Scamp and her gaff in Sedgeley House . |
| 12 | I could n't see anything , and I thought I 'd been stung by ants , but the knee became swollen and blistered and then I noticed tracks like blisters crawling up my leg from my knee , and over the course of months they went crawling up and up and round my leg — terrifying ! |
| 13 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 14 | Er , there 's something that 's me that survives these different changes of location erm age and size erm all kinds of things are consistent with it still being me that 's doing the changing rather than my having been replaced by something else . |
| 15 | After my tour of the exhibits I had been invited by the Rector Mr Jocelyn Stevens to his dinner in the Senior Common Room , where , like other parts of the College , there were beautiful floral arrangements . |
| 16 | He moved a leg to scratch — innocently ? — his bulging crotch , and the knee just touched mine beneath the table , as if accidentally , and I felt as if I had been touched by lightning . |
| 17 | I had been touched by his kindness to my aunts , though later on it seemed more like arrogance than virtue . |
| 18 | I had been heartened by their performance , but Pat really thought that , in its basic approach , the Government was right . |
| 19 | NEXT day I took the advice I had been given by my friends at the Union and went to see the exhibition of the Bibliotheca Corviniana in the National Library on Castle Hill , partly because Matthias I , or Matthias Hunyadi , known as Corvinus because of the crow motif on his banners , was one of the most striking and decisive characters in East European history , straddling the histories of Transylvania , Hungary , Bohemia and Austria . |
| 20 | I would have to go to my constituency and say that I had been outbid by Tory Ministers , and that after complaining for all these years about their accruing power to themselves I had found that I had been wrong all the time . |
| 21 | Forbidden to speak any language but French , Marius and I had been punished by the Corporals for speaking English while dismantling the tents at Canjuers . |
| 22 | Already I had been corrupted by Mandru 's household . ’ |
| 23 | Trouble was I could never run very quickly , and I can not imagine what I would have done if I had been chased by the bull . |
| 24 | I had been asked by Professor John Mills and Dr James Waterhouse of Manchester School of Medicine to record my temperature every waking hour . |
| 25 | Around the middle of 1969 I had been asked by the Jockey Club whether I would join the board of United Racecourses , for one reason and one reason only : in order to keep the peace between the Jockey Club and Lord Wigg . |
| 26 | ‘ I had been threatened by my older brother years before not to tell anyone when he was ‘ experimenting ’ with me . |
| 27 | All this time I had been followed by a police car which now stopped . |
| 28 | I also explained to him myself that I had been abused by my father , who was a doctor , and that I did not wish to be examined by a man . |
| 29 | By September , I had been joined by a director of studies and in November the first draft of a Development Plan for Banbury was published . |
| 30 | When I went through the Blackfriars underpass I felt as though I had been hit by a brick , ’ she said . |