Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adj] at the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before Christmas , a man had been seized at gunpoint and made to drive a van loaded with three and a half thousand pounds of explosives into Annaghmartin ; the Christmas before , two soldiers had been shot dead at the Derry checkpoint , next door . |
| 2 | The man who had opened the emergency door identified himself as the co-pilot and informed them that the pilot who had been at the controls had been knocked unconscious at the moment of impact and was badly injured . |
| 3 | She had been taken ill at the weekend and had had to stay behind in Liverpool . |
| 4 | France 's President Mitterrand , who recently underwent cancer surgery , has been taken ill at the summit . |
| 5 | Peter Alcock , the last miner of six trapped in the Bilsthorpe pit in Nottinghamshire , has been certified dead at the scene . |