Example sentences of "been [verb] [adv prt] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ It 's just been filled up with petrol so you 've no worry there . ’ |
| 2 | Important details have been filled in by experiments in channel flow ; transition is promoted by a vibrating ribbon close to one wall whilst flow in the other half of the channel remains undisturbed , so there is close resemblance to a boundary layer . |
| 3 | He looked like a man who had just found that his tax returns had been filled in by Ken Dodd 's accountant , or that Kitty Kelley was going to write his biography . |
| 4 | But Rowland 's offer has been dismissed out of hand by Brent Walker and unless the bond holders , owed £102m in all , agree to the restructuring plan involving BW 's 47 bankers it would appear that the directors will have no other alternative but to put the company into receivership . |
| 5 | Perhaps for this reason above any other , aromatherapy has sometimes been dismissed out of hand by a few dyed-in-the-wool traditionalists because they believe a certain amount of discomfort must be felt if it 's to do us any good ! |
| 6 | Both were villages with large numbers of Hinkley workers and which , a few years before , could have been relied on to toe the company line . |
| 7 | Despite all the money the Politicals had been siphoning off for years , a very sore point with the rest of us , they claimed to have no material on the terrorists beyond a few isolated descriptions and photographs . |
| 8 | Punishment , by several indications swift and far-reaching , has been meted out for incompetence , not insubordination . |
| 9 | Lionel who had been catching up on news from Yorkshire , said , ‘ My brother tells me Hawksworth at the Hall has netted an enormous fish . |
| 10 | David Wilshire , MP for Spelthorne , told the House Mr Naqvi 's body had been flown in to Heathrow yesterday morning . |
| 11 | Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia . |
| 12 | Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia . |
| 13 | With al-Kassar 's blessing , he met the Magharians in Bern and Zurich to set up accounts for his family , each meeting taped and monitored by Coleman 's assistant Syrian George , who had been flown in from Cyprus for this purpose . |
| 14 | The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham . |
| 15 | THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death . |
| 16 | Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece . |
| 17 | In the meantime , F/O Kohn had been flown back by ATA ‘ taxi ’ for another aircraft . |
| 18 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 19 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 20 | ‘ And that would have been ironic , would n't it , now he 's been posted back to HQ . |
| 21 | The audience of willing females had shouted the answer so loudly that it could probably have been heard back in Monte Samana . |
| 22 | Throughout the town fences and hedges have been ripped down by tenants who want to use their gardens as impromptu garages . |
| 23 | She said electrical sockets had been ripped out of walls . |
| 24 | Sharks stayed outside the reef , while Trent knew Arab net fishermen in the Persian Gulf whose calf muscles had been ripped out by barracudas while they were standing on the coral with the water below their knees . |
| 25 | Production had been building up at Courtaulds ' $85 million plant near Mobile , Alabama , since June , 1992 . |
| 26 | Something approaching a personal crisis had been building up since Nietzsche 's return from the unforgettable distress of war . |
| 27 | Her sense of its deliberate concealment was overwhelmingly strong-it had been placed out of sight , but in a place where its owner could easily put his hand on it . |
| 28 | Compromise had , as he put it , been crushed out of existence . |
| 29 | But if Hardy 's Virgilianism had been pointed out to Pound , this would not have counted in Hardy 's favour . |
| 30 | A difference in these cell numbers related to sex has already been pointed out in rats given omeprazole . |