Example sentences of "[pers pn] has [been] [verb] [art] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Since talking to me , she has been given a council house about fifteen miles from her family home , so at last she and Sean can get on with their lives together . |
| 2 | Sharron Davies ' bid to win the 400 metres individual medley title for a record sixth time will be watched with added interest now that she has been given the opportunity to swim the event in Barcelona next month . |
| 3 | She has been called the mourning Athena , since the bent head suggests grief . |
| 4 | I do so because I believe she has been made a scapegoat for what happened . |
| 5 | After all , she has been asked the question several times over the past few days and will not say yes or no . |
| 6 | Following the burglary , she has been offered a place in a warden controlled block in Milton Keynes . |
| 7 | She has been doing a voice-over for a commercial for a magazine today , which will keep her mind off her problems . ’ |
| 8 | Sophia Tickell , Project Officer for the Andes , will return on April 19 from Bolivia , where she has been researching the impact of structural adjustment and other economic reforms encouraged by the World Bank and IMF . |
| 9 | A receptionist assures a potential guest that she has been allocated a room with a bathroom/w.c. and a balcony , when the room in fact allocated has none of these facilities ; s.14(1) also applies to this situation . |
| 10 | One of Kylie 's entourage , an aide and friend , explained : ‘ She has been studying the Atlas carefully for nearly two months , before she is ready to step on a soap box or address meetings . |
| 11 | From the moment he left your home on his quest he has been leaving a trail for you to follow ; not of pebbles , not of bread or coloured beads ; a trail of memory , of image like blood , like a scent ; something that you have always known even though so often it seemed to you that you did not recognize it . ’ |
| 12 | In essence , B's claim can be characterised as asserting that he has been denied the right to a fair criminal trial . |
| 13 | He has been watching a number of wingers in the last three months in a bid to add some firepower to his team , who have scored only 31 goals in 31 League games this season . |
| 14 | The storyteller has already told us that he has been watching the road , his heart trembling with fear for the precious ark . |
| 15 | Xorandor explains that he lives on radioactivity , that he has come from Mars in search of food , and that he has been stealing the waste to feed himself . |
| 16 | ( He has been addressing the problem rather more seriously since his wife succumbed after breakfast on her way down the gangplank . ) |
| 17 | He has been given every chance to develop , for the West Indies youth team 's tour of Australia in 1988 , another trip to Zimbabwe in 1989 and every representative President 's XI or Under-23s going in the Caribbean against touring teams . |
| 18 | Any intelligent man , once he has been given the opportunity to voice his feelings , will understand just what he has done and be able to see that it makes no sense at all to build upon an isolated failure when he has a lifetime of ‘ successes ’ about which he could think . |
| 19 | But he has been given the all-clear after an operation last week to remove a second disc from his neck . |
| 20 | He comes back two weeks later saying that he has been given the sack . |
| 21 | Has the minister indicated Madam Speaker , this is my point of order , whether or not he intends to come before the house to acknowledge the reality of the two tier system and to admit he has been misleading the house . |
| 22 | ‘ No , but now you come to mention it , he has been coughing a bit . ’ |
| 23 | This entitles him to refuse to hand them over until he has been repaid the money repayable to him . |
| 24 | But Reid , who is also considering giving brilliant youngster Gary Flitcroft his full debut , stressed : ‘ There is no problem with Steve even though he was substituted on Saturday — to be fair to him he has been fighting a toe injury . ’ |
| 25 | Evidence abounds that he has been approaching the top of his game for the event , following up his second place in the Tournament Players ' Championship , in Florida recently , with a sixth at New Orleans on Sunday . |
| 26 | He has been studying the development of Aplysia from its tiny , free-swimming larval form through a series of intermediate stages to its adulthood , and in particular has mapped the development of the animal 's nervous system and of its behaviour . |
| 27 | ‘ He has been offered a player/coach position at Exeter City and that 's obviously interesting him but I will be getting in touch with him before I go on holiday to see what he 's doing . |
| 28 | Most Saturdays , assuming he has been working the night before , Young is up by 10 am for breakfast with his wife and three children : two teenage boys and Hannah Harley , four , named after his beloved motorbike . |
| 29 | He 's won dozens of gold , silver and bronze medals as a distance runner … more recently he has been awarded the MBE in the New Year 's honours list … and now he will be due for at least a service medal , at the end of the Gulf War . |
| 30 | ‘ I have observed he has been behaving a mite more realisti-cally since he 's had you in his life , my dear … . |