Example sentences of "have been [vb pp] prisoner " in BNC.
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| 1 | He worked out where you 'd been kept prisoner . ’ |
| 2 | He 'd been taken prisoner by the Japs , and had been shipped to Japan , and was working in a warehouse in the docks on the morning of 9 August , 1945 . |
| 3 | A prostitute who was murdered and dumped in a canal may have been kept prisoner for twenty-four hours before she was killed . |
| 4 | The 24-hour gap between her last sighting and her murder suggests she may have been held prisoner before being killed . |
| 5 | And they found one tent which had been King Yucef 's ; never man saw so noble a thing as that tent was ; and there were great riches therein , and there also did they find Alvar Salvadores , who had been made prisoner the yesterday , as ye have heard . |
| 6 | Thailand claims the Vietnamese withdrawal was not genuine , and on Monday a Foreign Ministry spokesman , Prachyadavi Tavedikul , said reporters would be shown five Vietnamese in Cambodian Army uniforms who had been taken prisoner by Khmer Rouge resistance guerrillas after Hanoi 's withdrawal deadline of 26 September . |
| 7 | Both boys had been taken prisoner and tortured ( according to Dr Caskie , who told the story in his book The Tartan Pimpernel ) ‘ until the blood came out of their ears ’ ; but they managed convincingly to deny their activities , and eventually they were released . |
| 8 | To make sure that their knowledge of enemy military procedure was correct and up to date , Buck had also recruited a couple of Afrika Korps men who had been taken prisoner . |
| 9 | I realized with a shock that this was the first time I had been really unhappy since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 10 | Ever since I had been taken prisoner I had found the presence of German helmets fascinating . |
| 11 | They were as shy as I was and the effort they made to be friendly was the most heartening thing I had experienced since I had been taken prisoner . |
| 12 | Meanwhile a young infantry soldier who had fought in the trenches and had been taken prisoner of war was putting the finishing touches to a philosophical treatise that was to bring traditional philosophy crashing down about its ears . |
| 13 | In fact , he had been taken prisoner after going behind enemy lines to retrieve the body of a friend . |
| 14 | Clinton and Neville of Hornby seem to have been followers of the Earl of Lancaster ; Neville had been taken prisoner at Boroughbridge but was pardoned in return for a fine of £500 , of which he paid only £50 . |
| 15 | That winter there was another sinister addition to the Germans and the Repubblichini in Fontanellato : Mongols — a people we had heard of but had never seen — who had been taken prisoner on the Russian front and were now attached to the German army . |
| 16 | Robert had been taken prisoner in his turn and , for the time being , hostilities had ceased while both sides licked their wounds and took stock of the situation . |
| 17 | A further 450 Palestinians had been taken prisoner . |
| 18 | Now , badly wounded , he had been taken prisoner . |
| 19 | On 21 September , the radio announced that Mussolini , who had been held prisoner in a mountain refuge on the Gran Sasso , in the Abruzzi , had been unexpectedly rescued by German parachutists and taken to Germany . |