Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [verb] [prep] another " in BNC.
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| 1 | It was not however , until I arrived in the country , and found myself surrounded by objects as strange as if I had been transported to another planet , that I conceived the idea of devoting a portion of my attention to the mammalian class of its extraordinary fauna . ’ |
| 2 | 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 . |
| 3 | If she had had any talent , if she had been born in another period and perhaps if her spirit had been lodged in the body of a man , she might just have been heroic . |
| 4 | She had been swopped with another baby 13 years before in a tragic hospital blunder . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | Among these well-tended plots , with their laden fruit trees , it was out of place and ill at ease ; as though it had been transplanted from another age or a backward planet . |
| 7 | And , you see , she 'd known it , but it had been entered under another word , in her mind . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | He had said he had been fighting with another man . |
| 11 | Just as with other heroes like Arthur and Charlemagne , it was thought that he had been transported to another time or place to await his country 's greatest need . |