Example sentences of "[noun prp] had been [verb] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Beaton had been dumped by a road-side and picked up by police who had been alerted to the hijack and had eventually stopped MacIver in the lorry at Doune . |
| 2 | For example , there was the Australian edition of the racy Sunday Sport which claimed that Kylie had been mauled by a killer shark while skin diving on the Great Barrier Reef . |
| 3 | Since early 1919 , agitation against Britain 's support for the various anti-Soviet armies in Russia had been co-ordinated by a Hands Off Russia Committee run by the far left , but supported by UDC intellectuals , Quakers and many Liberals . |
| 4 | When he looked back he saw that Burun had been joined by a crowd of aides and counsellors . |
| 5 | The position of Agnos had been undermined by a large budget deficit ( much of it inherited ) , the effects of the country 's economic recession and the legacy of the 1989 earthquake [ see pp. 36970-71 ] . |
| 6 | When Amelia Putt entered the room into which Constable Aplin and Detective Eddy had been shown by a manor servant , she looked pale and upset and her expression was strained . |
| 7 | Mr Patten had been shaken by a ( to him ) unexpected decision by the courts not to declare the teachers ' action illegal , and by an NOP opinion poll showing that parents back the boycott . |
| 8 | The smile of recognition and welcome for Duncan had been followed by a fit of coughing . |
| 9 | Miss Malabedeely had been kneeling by a chair , praying , and Kate had thought immediately that she 'd been asking God to stop Miss Shaw and Miss Rist being so unpleasant to her . |
| 10 | He shows the Captain where Garvey had been stung by a Varga thorn , a venomous biological creation found on only one planet in the skies … |
| 11 | There might have been considerable constitutional difficulties if it had turned out that , for the last 10 years , Britain had been ruled by a Martian , or a robot , or a vampire . |
| 12 | In Bucharest Dalby had been told by a totally reliable source that Ion Manescu , brutal Securitate chief , was alive . |
| 13 | ‘ I could not understand why , if Allingham had been taken by a seizure , he had not tried to open the door , turn the key and call for help . |
| 14 | Like Darwin , Wallace had been led by a study of biogeography to see how new species might be produced when existing ones migrated into areas with different environments . |
| 15 | Forbes assumed that much of northern Europe had been submerged by a shallow ocean during a period in which the climate was significantly colder than the present ( Lyell 's alternative to the ice age theory ) . |
| 16 | She paced up and down the tiny room while I sat on her bed , and she explained to me that McIllvanney had been approached by a client who had apparently seen Ellen and authorised McIllvanney to offer her the money . |
| 17 | Guy of Lusignan had been beaten by a greater man . |
| 18 | Andy Douglas , however , ensured the Melrose revival was delayed by crossing on the right after his colleague Liddle had been thwarted by a well-executed Ross Brown tackle . |
| 19 | On June 23 Air Marshal Anant Kalinta had been replaced by a civil servant as chairman of the state-owned Communications Authority of Thailand . |
| 20 | By 1341 the Forest of Dean had been diminished by a quarter , and the warden 's farm was reduced from £160 to £120 . |
| 21 | By June 1318 the forest of Selwood in Wiltshire had been so much reduced in size that the warden 's farm of £10 a year could no longer be paid , and the Forest of Dean had been reduced by a quarter before the end of the reign . |
| 22 | Pointon had been caught by a late Giggs tackle just before , and the referee decided that a strong word with the young Welshman , who had given United the lead with a goal worthy of crowning champions , was sufficient . |
| 23 | Mrs Burrows had been paralysed by a stroke . |
| 24 | The official peace negotiations in Rome had been blocked by a succession of differences over a wide range of political and constitutional issues . |
| 25 | Smoke bombs erupted everywhere so did manager Best who raced to the touchline to protest that defender Stephen Brown had been felled by a punch after the goal . |
| 26 | Maguire had been acquitted by a Dublin court in February 1990 and Harte had been extradited from the Irish Republic to Northern Ireland in 1988 . |
| 27 | John 's long struggle against Innocent 's interference in the appointment of Stephen Langton as archbishop of Canterbury had been superseded by a struggle against the baronage — his own vassals . |
| 28 | Bedpans had gone from earthenware to papier-mâché , bottles had progressed from glass to plastic , but there was the same kindly welcome , much the same decor except that the photo of George VI had been replaced by a poster on the etiquette of urinating . |