Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] another [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | By 1988 Field End had been joined by another specialist children 's respite care unit at Leigh Road . |
| 2 | A 13 year old boy from Kent described as ‘ borderline autistic ’ reported to his mother that he had been buggered by another pupil at his residential school . |
| 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 | Not least , the general public has been treated to another dose of Nanny Knows Best . |
| 5 | Mr Morrison has been likened to another vice-president , the late Hubert Humphrey . |
| 6 | The company now hopes to transfer what has been developed to another vendor — Digital Equipment Corp sells the Y-MP EL , but has been less successful than Cray hoped . |
| 7 | That is best illustrated by the fact that a similar case has been referred by another GP in north Devon to the same unit in Birmingham . |
| 8 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 9 | He could have been walking on another planet The flat , moonlight illuminated landscape , interrupted by large and small pools of bright water seemed unreal . |
| 10 | It is perhaps noteworthy that two chroniclers refer to the plague of 1361 as the pestis puerorum , the plague of the children , and if it is true that children in particular had perished in that outbreak , it could be that by the early 1370s the supply of labour was being reduced by a shortage of new recruits , particularly as the survivors of 1361 would also have been attacked by another outbreak in 1369 . |
| 11 | Smaller theatres striving to balance budgets and improve quality in marketing and production , etc will now have greater difficulty than before because their grants have been frozen for another year . |
| 12 | If coal was just another industry or a medium-sized company in the private sector whose product was not as much in demand as previously , or had been superseded by another product that it could not make or compete with it , that industry or company would slim down or might even close altogether — with the same tragic effect on families and communities as has been seen in the coal industry . |
| 13 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 14 | ‘ Noelle is 5ft 6in and she 's already been approached by another agency , ’ she says ruefully . |
| 15 | However , top management became aware that all of the work-force reductions , although necessary , were not attacking the basic problem : the organization had been designed for another time in history rather than for the competitive world in which it now lived . |
| 16 | ( a ) references to signatures , inscription and dates refer to the present state of the work ; ( b ) the term ‘ bears a signature ’ and/or ‘ date ’ and/or ‘ inscription ’ means that in our opinion the artist 's name and/or ‘ date ’ and/or inscription have been added by another hand ; ( c ) the term ‘ signed ’ and/or ‘ dated ’ and/or ‘ inscribed ’ means that in our opinion the signature and/or date and/or inscription are from the hand of the artist . |
| 17 | He did not complain when he found that his sleeping place had been claimed by another player ; nor when Garvey told him to wash the mud off the wagon wheelrims , and forbad him or Izzie ever to speak a word to Gabriel . |
| 18 | He had thought they were at least speaking to one another privately , but if Jim had really sworn an affidavit he must have been listening on another telephone . |
| 19 | Most ELT series are intended to supplement what is in the textbook not to replace it and they are intended to be used to consolidate the learning of language that has already been presented in another form . |
| 20 | In a confidential statement to the council 's investigating committee Mr Horn said he had suffered stress since more than half of his duties had been transferred to another education unit in 1989 . |
| 21 | Every kind of reason for it went through her mind : the doctor had given him six months to live , his family was moving away from the area , he had been transferred to another school . |
| 22 | ‘ Has the cargo been transferred to another train in Fribourg ? ’ |
| 23 | It may be justified where : ( i ) the original factors leading to registration no longer apply ; ( ii ) the child and his family have moved to another area ( and responsibility for the case has been transferred to another authority ) ; ( iii ) the child has reached the age of 18 years or married ; or ( iv ) the child has died ( para 6.45 ) . |
| 24 | And that that guy has just been transferred to another group so you know we 're now one short well in fact we 're three or four short up in Scotland so . |
| 25 | The court to which proceedings have been transferred from another court after the making of the bankruptcy order also has this power ( Re A Debtor ( No 2A of 1980 ) ( 1981 ) Ch 148 ) . |
| 26 | That is any auditor of an authorised institution incorporated in the U K. It also covers auditors of authorised institutions whose place of incorporation is outside the European community and who 's initial authorisation has been granted by another regulator , even though such auditors may be appointed under a foreign law . |
| 27 | He spoke to the officer on desk duty who said that a complaint against Russell had been made at another station . |
| 28 | She was happily thinking , Serves him right , a pity there was n't a cloudburst , when across the car park , in an area where the top managers of Vasey 's normally parked their cars , she noticed that room had been made for another car . |
| 29 | The court was told Tania had been living with another man , Robert Cross , for five months . |
| 30 | Shaun Garnett has been secured on another month 's loan while Eddie Bishop 's knee ligament problem is not as serious as was first feared . |