Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] [vb past] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They have now been joined by the Double Knit gauge ( SK860 ) and probably , by the time you read this , by the fine gauge ( SK830 ) . |
| 2 | At this point in his writing a white pigeon which had been fluttering round the swimming-pool alighted on the table , took two steps forward and excreted on the ‘ Jottings ’ , no doubt in the interests of historical accuracy . |
| 3 | The storm that had been circling in the distance wandered far off , only an occasional casual flicker of light low in the sky showed that somewhere the enormous battle was going on . |
| 4 | The above reduction in yield table refers to expenses which are expected to be made in respect of this contract and has been calculated on the basis laid down by Lautro . |
| 5 | The above reduction in yield table refers to expenses which are expected to be made in respect of this contract and has been calculated on the basis laid down by Lautro . |
| 6 | The cursor will be returned to its original size and moved to a point just outside where the highlight had been depending on the key tapped . |
| 7 | Do not reply until all five items have been listed in the way suggested above . |
| 8 | Accounting software house Sage Plc has finally launched the Macintosh version of its mid-range Sterling +2 package software , along with a revamped version of its MainLan peer-to-peer networking system and enhanced version of its Sovereign high end accounting system : the announcements were accompanied by the news that Sage Sterling +2 has now been included in the IT Recommended Product Scheme run by the Institute of Chartered Accountants in England and Wales ; the Bookkeeper version of Sterling +2 for the Mac , available now , is £150 , the Accountant version is £350 ; MainLan 4.0 for MS-DOS and for Windows said to be faster and takes up 20% less memory than its predecessor is either £400 for the 16-bit starter kit boards or £200 with 8-bit boards ; the ‘ super enhanced ’ Sovereign 4.7 now has full EuroVAT reporting and improved profit and loss , stock take and help facilities and costs £350 for single users or £600 for multiple users . |
| 9 | Hoddle 's car has been parked outside the County Ground all day . |
| 10 | A woman who had been looking at the screen turned to him and said , " I saw one , round at my daughter 's . |
| 11 | PW points out that had Perfect Information been accounted for as an associated undertaking , ‘ in our opinion up to £2m of the loss recognised this year would have been reflected in the year ended 31 March 1991 by elimination of profits arising on sales made to Perfect Information Ltd . |
| 12 | The Sir Alfred 's brother , Ernest , discovered that the 1962 budget had been spent before the season had started … |
| 13 | ‘ A great crowd assembled , ’ runs the report in The Sexual Life of Our Time , ’ from the midst of which the unfortunate couple were removed in a closed carriage , and taken to the hospital , and not until chloroform had been administered to the girl did the spasm pass off and free the man . ’ |
| 14 | At school next day , even the girls who had n't been asked to the party wished her a happy birthday . |
| 15 | A doctor who examined the soldier who claimed he had been hit by the car said he found a bruise measuring 10cms on his left thigh . |
| 16 | Tenants ' association club on the Sparrow Farm estate … it is alleged that people who had been drinking at the club attacked the family in the off-licence opposite PHOTOGRAPHS : KENNETH SAUNDERS Bitter questions of racial violence Ramesh K and his family were hounded out of their Feltham off-licence by 18 months of abuse and attacks , during which time they became pawns in a battle between the local council , the police and two rival race relations bodies . |
| 17 | The insignia of royalty that had been assumed by the papacy reflected a monarchical form and structure of government . |
| 18 | The most important source of bias is in the selection of patients , and there is little doubt that some mid/early cases have been excluded by the symptom led investigatory protocol and by the requirement for unequivocal features at endoscopic retrograde cholangiopancreatography . |
| 19 | Eamonn Dalton , Chief City Engineer , ‘ said it could be argued that the Ovens claim was not based on objective evidence in that the samples said to have been taken at the dump had been handled , transmitted and analysed in all cases presumably by people with a particular interest in one aspect of the case . |
| 20 | Meanwhile , the school 's RFFS ( rescue and fire-fighting service ) person who had been standing outside the school ran 150 metres to the RFFS vehicle parked by the control room . |
| 21 | And the one that had been writhing on the ground recovered itself , lunging towards her from the other side . |
| 22 | When they reached the Manor the children who had been watching from the window ran to greet Tamar . |
| 23 | War production — the very continuance of the war itself — depended on civilian morale ; morale determined the need to take account of the blueprints for the future which had been articulated before the war began . |
| 24 | The mayor and the chairman of the rural district council met the Minister of Health and Local Government on the issue , and Eddie McAteer also raised with the minister the additional problem of thirty-one subtenants , mostly the sons and daughters of Springtown residents , who had not been mentioned in the statement issued following his meeting with the two local authority leaders . |
| 25 | The payment of seamen 's wages only when the owner had been paid for the freight carried , on the ancient maxim that " freights are the mother of wages " , was discontinued and payment required on the basis of service , whether freight was carried or not . |
| 26 | However , a resolution which had been attached to the bill stipulated that it should not enter into effect until the beginning of 1993 because of the financial problems involved in implementing it . |
| 27 | Although it had been obscured by the emphasis put on the military and diplomatic struggles within the Arab world and in the international arena ever since 1967 , the centrality of the people under occupation in the national struggle could no longer be disregarded . |