Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv] by a [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | They had also been joined here by a number of " White " emigres from outside the USSR , that is to say anti-Communists who had gone into exile during or after the Civil War of 1918–20 and had subsequently lived in various European countries . |
| 2 | As one policeman remarked after a gouger had been treated leniently by a judge , ‘ Right , we 'll get him for every wrong move he makes ’ ( FN 9/3/87 , p. 8 ) . |
| 3 | Perhaps he had been caught unawares by a flashgun ? |
| 4 | The great double doors of the palace had been smashed inwards by a hammerblow from an American Civil War vintage sixty-five pounder naval gun , which the rebels had somehow recovered from the sunken Atlanta , transporting it on an ox-drawn cart since the wheels were missing from its carriage axles . |
| 5 | As of late November the Nasir group still claimed to control Malakal , whereas the government account stated that the town had been attacked abortively by a group led by a local religious leader , and Garang 's wing of the SPLA was said to be claiming that the town had been captured by " southern nationalists " within the army , aided by the southern rebel faction calling itself Anyanya II . |
| 6 | Within minutes he had been picked up by a patrol car on the M5 in Gloucestershire . |
| 7 | BEIRUT — Syrian forces freed a Lebanese air force pilot who had been picked up by a gunboat after ditching his plane in the Mediterranean yesterday , Reuter reports . |
| 8 | In recent years the defiantly right-on stance of the comedy circuit had been booted out by a brand of no-holds barred humour . |
| 9 | However , you could use that initial unthinking response to the idea " vicar " to fool your reader , as for instance in a short story , by saying no more about the vicar and elsewhere stating that the murder could have been committed only by a man of enormous physical strength . |
| 10 | More recently , the American writer Washington Irving ( 1783- 1959 ) described the ghost of a cavalryman ‘ whose head had been carried away by a cannonball in some nameless battle ’ during the American War of Independence . |
| 11 | Detectives believe most of the UDA/UFF killings have been carried out by a unit from the Shankill district . |
| 12 | A survey of these structures on the line has been carried out by a firm of consulting engineers , showing that only one minor bridge requires any structural repairs . |
| 13 | One unguarded remark by Byrkin , one remark that had been carried back by a man with innocence on his face to those who would judge Byrkin . |
| 14 | Perhaps they had been staved in by a bath chair which had run amok ! |
| 15 | The stove was the delight of her heart and had been built especially by a friend of her late husband 's to fit neatly into the end of her tiny home . |
| 16 | Neither party is likely to want to wait until the matter has been decided on by a court . |
| 17 | Piper explained : ‘ I have already been written off by a lot of people and a lot of critics and I can understand Benn being favourite . |
| 18 | A French housewife recently thought that she had discovered the world 's first metal potato — until she realised that the object she was trying to peel was in fact a Second World War hand grenade , which had probably been scooped up by a potato picking machine before it found its way into her groceries . |
| 19 | A SECOND appeal against East Hampshire District Council 's refusal to allow permission for a house on land at Old School House , Crabtree Lane , Headley has been turned down by a government inspector . |
| 20 | if the SSR is to close an SPR , the SPR must have been accepted previously by a LIFESPAN user and must not have been closed via another SSR . |
| 21 | It is the propeller salvaged from a Royal Navy Coastal Airship which is believed to have been shot down by a U-Boat in July 1918 whilst operating from Longside Airship Station . |
| 22 | New York is uncommon political turf , and Mr Brown has been helped mightily by a press that prides itself on its aggression and which does not much like Mr Clinton . |
| 23 | Although this commentary appears on RSPB headed paper , has been drawn up by a community of interests , including CPRW . |
| 24 | Our attention had been drawn initially by a hose snaking into the water and some bubbles rising from the depths . |
| 25 | From the time it reached its fully articulated form in the middle twenties of this century it has been used daily by an army of honest toilers with consistently reliable results . |
| 26 | He 'd just been shown in by a messenger , and the moment the uniformed official had withdrawn , had expressed surprise and displeasure at finding her to be his interviewer . |
| 27 | Unofficial reports said that the incident might have been sparked off by a dispute over permission to build a mosque . |
| 28 | But St Margaret of Antioch had been swallowed up by a dragon too , and she had climbed out again , fresh and free , to become the matron saint of women in childbirth . |
| 29 | ‘ the advantage of adopting this course if it is practical because children whose appeals are heard last could otherwise be prejudiced because of decisions which had been reached already by an appeal committee to send children to a particular school ’ . |
| 30 | Intel Corp 's storming first quarter figures ( see page seven ) have not gone down well everywhere , and Hancock Institutional Equity Services analyst Eli Sayegh reckons that there is not much more to go for in the stock : he yesterday downgraded Intel to sell from hold , saying he thinks the company is near peak operating margins at just over 40% , double the historical norm ; he said the company 's margins have been driven largely by a shift from the 80386 chip to the 80486 chip ‘ and this can not go on for too long ; ’ he reckons that Advanced Micro Devices Inc will immediately take 10% of the 80486 market with its planned clone , and could take as much as 25% over time ; his damper wiped $1.75 off Intel shares at $115.75 . |