Example sentences of "[vb past] [pron] [verb] been [vb pp] [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Totally unprepared for an unexpected 5g demonstration loop , I realised I had been caught napping , and glanced at the g-meter in time for it to disappear as my sight blacked out . |
| 2 | In fact , I have no reason to think that Wilson wrote this or any other letter protesting against the establishment of a wide-ranging inquiry such as Denning believed he had been instructed to conduct . |
| 3 | PRINCESS Diana was at the centre of a mystery last night after a US paper claimed she had been recorded chatting to a man declaring his love for her . |
| 4 | Joan received permission and active encouragement to attempt what she claimed she had been sent to carry out . |
| 5 | One , Yvonne Morgan , said anglers on the riverbank were an invasion of her privacy and claimed she had been subjected to abuse and foul language . |
| 6 | Nearly all interviewees claimed they had been forced to cut down on food and fuel and many reported ill health . |
| 7 | On arriving home at lunch time Ron was confronted with the owner of the purloined petrol , who stated he had been advised to prosecute , but in view of them being ex POWs , he would take no action . |
| 8 | A coastguard claimed he had been ordered to look out for ‘ charred bodies ’ in the water . |
| 9 | When he arrived he had been told to wait , and he had been waiting ever since . |
| 10 | Only five minutes before the hearings began they had been allowed to read these for themselves , and in the words of one family friend , the Reverend Derek Edwards , ‘ they were devastating … ’ |
| 11 | Det Con Turnbull recognised two of the youths and his inquiries revealed they had been overheard talking about cash and an off-licence . |
| 12 | At first I thought I 'd been commissioned to rewrite The Archers theme . |
| 13 | It is thought he might have hitched a lift and motorists who saw him have been asked to come forward . |
| 14 | No doubt , it was for such men as Peter Bouverie that he felt he had been called to come south . |
| 15 | Of the thousand-plus programmes I must have taken part in during those years I remember very little , and those mostly trivial things : Thor Heyerdahl the Norwegian explorer arriving half an hour late from Broadcasting House because the taxi driver sent to fetch him understood he had been told to pick up four airedales ( a reasonable enough request , he reckoned , from the BBC ) ; the maverick film director Ken Russell whacking Alexander Walker , the Evening Standard film critic , over the head with a copy of his own paper ; Norman St John Stevas , MP ( now Lord St John of Fawsley ) winking at a cameraman who had had the stars and stripes sewn on to the bottom of his jeans ; Enoch Powell 's eyes filling with tears when I asked if he was an emotional man ; A. J. P. Taylor on his seventy-fifth birthday admitting he had never been offered an honour and when I asked him which he would like if given the choice , his replying , ‘ A baronetcy , because it would make my elder son so dreadfully annoyed . ’ |
| 16 | It also involved a sensational TV interview martin Crowe had with his brother Jeff in which he revealed he had been asked to resign as captain on the fourth day of the third Test . |
| 17 | A spokesman for Liat airlines said they had been told to expect a ‘ prominent personality ’ to arrive in Antigua today . |
| 18 | That 's it well tha there 's Peggy says I said oh well I 'm a bit erm worried about taking them and I said they have been known to get up and walk out , and said , surely not ! |
| 19 | Peter Runciman , 64 , former executive chairman of Shanks & McEwan , said it had been decided to issue the profits warning to the stock exchange at a meeting of the company 's three-man executive committee on 5 September . |
| 20 | Detective Inspector Alan Brown said it had been done to create more addicts but resulted in a trebling of the number of fatalities . |
| 21 | New chairman David Mahony said it has been decided to concentrate on its electrical and electronic businesses . |
| 22 | He said he had been invited to call upon them at their new house . |
| 23 | Evans , who has transformed Cardiff from last season 's Welsh rugby no-hopers to this year 's championship contenders , said he had been asked to come back next year but personal problems might prevent him doing so . |
| 24 | ‘ He said he had been instructed to tell me that because Ayrton Senna would drive for nothing , I , the new world champion , had to accept a massive reduction in remuneration from the figure agreed in Hungary . |
| 25 | Arkan said he had been elected to protect the Serbians in Kosovo from Albanian terrorists . |
| 26 | The spokesman said he had been advised to give no further details of the possible legal action at this stage . |
| 27 | In his broadcast on Saturday Mr Yeltsin said he had been forced to act to prevent the restoration of Communist rule . |
| 28 | Mr Wakil denounced Mr Najibullah for cowardice in trying to flee and said he had been forced to resign as head of the ruling Watan ( Homeland ) Party . |
| 29 | In central London the couple 's solicitor Alan Taylor said he 'd been instructed to say nothing . |