Example sentences of "he [verb] be [verb] under " in BNC.
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| 1 | The reason for this is that ( in many cases ) the client becomes aware of the proposed legislation either because he has been served under the General Orders with a notice as being directly affected , or because he has seen it in the local newspaper or Gazette advertisement . |
| 2 | Now he was on his third circuit of the Bay : he 'd been ducking under bulldozers for almost an hour . |
| 3 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 4 | Because he was just doing the same job as he 'd been doing under the private under the L N E R. Management were more conciliatory when nationalization came on . |
| 5 | Marcus appeared in next-door 's back garden which surprised me as last I knew he 'd been snoring under the duvet . |
| 6 | He had been detained under section 37 of the Mental Health Act , and the order would have lapsed if he had remained at large for 28 days , unless there was fresh evidence of mental illness . |
| 7 | Thus , if the taxpayer can show that in year 1 he had been assessed under s739 on the £100,000 which accrued to the trust then the trustees are able either in that year or in subsequent years to pay the monies out without any tax charge under s742(2) ( c ) . |
| 8 | He had been convicted under Indonesia 's sweeping Anti-Subversion Law . |
| 9 | In R. v. Jordan ( 1967 ) Jordan , who had been sentenced for offences under the Race Relations Act 1965 , applied for a writ of habeas corpus claiming that he had been convicted under an invalid law . |
| 10 | He put the stub of the fat cigar he had been smoking under the cold tap , turned the water on for a second while the brown stump sizzled and died , then threw the sodden remnant in the bin . |
| 11 | He had been put under the tutelage of Sergeant Bragg , a great bear of a man , a man whose principles would not allow him to stoop to the self-serving tactics of his superiors . |
| 12 | Born in 1818 , he had been educated under the supervision of the liberally inclined Romantic poet Vasilii Zhukovskii . |
| 13 | He 's been hiding under a under an agreement . |