Example sentences of "[vb past] [been] [verb] [prep] [noun sg] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been filled with school milk and cod-liver oil and orange juice , but only the few scheme-housing children had bathrooms . |
| 2 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence , and he was cleared of murdering Bob who 'd challenging him with a hammer when he found him slashing car tyres . |
| 3 | Nineteen year old Joseph from South London said he 'd been acting in self defence . |
| 4 | SHe wondered whether SHe 'd been missed from Club Eleusis yet . |
| 5 | Before treatment , H pylori colonisation of the gastric mucosa had been detected by urease test and histology in all patients ( microscopically , after methylenblue staining in 37 and after culture in 31 patients ) . |
| 6 | Mr Suzuki 's flourishes merely echoed and embellished words that had been uttered with signal prescience almost exactly eighty years before , by John Hay . |
| 7 | Bonior , 46 , renowned as a blunt-spoken liberal , had represented a blue-collar district of Michigan since 1977 and had been appointed as deputy chief whip in 1987 . |
| 8 | When Norman recruited Sir Ian McGregor , this marked the first time in Britain that a nationalised industry chief had been appointed through executive search . |
| 9 | The man , who police believe is instrumental in many UFF attacks , said the organisation had been flooded with young people wanting to join since the UDA was banned last August and said that only one major UFF terrorist unit had been lost in security force operations in the last two years . |
| 10 | On Oct. 26 Stavenhagen was further criticized when a cargo shipment to Israel , which had been declared as farm machinery , was seized in Hamburg and found to contain east German weapons and military equipment . |
| 11 | On Dec. 29 , 1991 , the official news agency Suna had announced that a jihad ( holy war ) had been declared in south Kordofan . |
| 12 | When the US army discovered that Silver had been engaged in research work ( on Whitman ) he was put to personally testing the durability of uniforms , in sub-zero and boiling temperatures , artificial rain storms in laboratories and real tropical conditions in Florida : he soon became an assistant director of this project and stayed there for two years . |
| 13 | Sir Emmanuel once sent us some grouse from his own table but it was not to our taste -it had been cooked in port wine and laced with some spices . |
| 14 | Walter , the youngest boy , had the most distant relationship with his father ; he and Robert had been sent to boarding school and had seen even less of John than their sisters . |
| 15 | There were until about 20 years ago , mosaic pavements from Roman times displayed in their original positions where they had been discovered during field work , together with one unearthed some little distance away at a later excavation . |
| 16 | Calley , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment , was eventually paroled after having served only three years . |
| 17 | One morning a letter arrived from my literary agent , Michael Sissons , enclosing a handwritten manuscript of some 100,000 words written by a prisoner named David Cooper who , ten years earlier , had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in the Luton murder . |
| 18 | Besides Djohar and Taki , the six other candidates were : ( i ) Prince Said Ali Kemal , a former ambassador , the grandson of the last Sultan of the islands and founder of the Chuma ( Islands ' Friendship and Unity ) Party ; ( ii ) Mohamed Ali Mroudjae , a former Prime Minister , of the Parti comorien pour la démocratie et le progrès ; ( iii ) Mohammed Hassan Ali , a former Vice-President , now leader of the Moheli National Front ; ( iv ) Abbas Djoussouf , representing the Mouvement démocratique populaire ; ( v ) Mohammed Ali Mbalya of the Parti socialiste des Comores ; and ( vi ) Moustapha Said Cheikh , a Marxist standing for the Front démocratique , who had been sentenced to life imprisonment for his part in an attempted coup in 1985 , but who had been released from prison following Abdallah 's death . |
| 19 | His brother , Mohammed Ali Hamadei , had been sentenced to life imprisonment in Germany in May 1989 for his role in the hijacking of a United States Trans World Airlines aircraft in 1985 [ see p. 36666 ] . |
| 20 | Doherty had been sentenced to life imprisonment in 1981 for the murder of a British army captain during an ambush in Northern Ireland . |
| 21 | Of the individuals acquitted by the Bologna appeal court four had been sentenced to life imprisonment and nine to lesser terms . |
| 22 | Yassin had been sentenced to life imprisonment in October 1991 for ordering the killing of Palestinians suspected of collaborating with the Israeli authorities [ see p. 38550 ] . |
| 23 | There was no comfort either in Mr Ben Ali 's speech for the other opposition parties which , after their poor results in the elections , had been looking for government help . |
| 24 | It was one of six in the same building , but because the conversion had been done without planning permission , it did n't officially exist , and they 're saddled with a mortgage of £39,000 . |
| 25 | Council leader Mike Carr said the annual budget , to be presented to members today , was a Government budget because £1.4m in spending cuts had been imposed by environment secretary Michael Howard . |
| 26 | Yesterday , the new leader of the MSF , Roger Lyons , said Mr Gill had been asked to hand back part of his nest egg to help out the union during the recession . |
| 27 | A major scandal erupted in early November 1989 with the discovery that cattle on some 1,800 farms in the UK and the Netherlands had been affected by lead poisoning , following the illegal sale of rice bran which had been accidentally tainted with lead . |
| 28 | She had emigrated with half her family to England when a baby , but they had all come back the night an auntie 's house in Derry had been seen on TV news , with the sofa flying from an upstairs window and loyalist thugs pouring petrol on the geraniums . |
| 29 | But this was n't the first time Perkins had been charged with drug possession in Britain . |
| 30 | The personal element in the Anglo-American special relationship , which had been based on war-time partnership , started to crumble with the departure of Eisenhower from the White House , and had to be painstakingly rebuilt with the younger generation of American leaders . |