Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [prep] [art] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | We probably lost them on the Beltway , and they 'd been chasing round the Virginia countryside trying to pick me up … those things only have a range of about three miles . ’ |
| 2 | She 'd been writing for the NME , about David Cassidy and things like that but it must have been quite a struggle to get by . |
| 3 | Jahsaxa flinched with annoyance when she realised she 'd been connected with the Roirbak answering machine again . |
| 4 | I phoned and the man that I needed to speak to was not there , he 'd been seconded to the Himalayas or something , he was only coming back erm , in the middle of January , I was in , erm , November or whatever it was , I was giving a few days ' grace , and then I was going to call . |
| 5 | Later in the night she would discover the scars , the knife wound across his shoulder-blades where he 'd been slashed in a Belfast bar , and the bullet wound above his right knee that had never healed properly , a legacy from when he was on border patrol and one of his own men had panicked and opened fire on him . |
| 6 | Well okay , that was a time she 'd been camping in the Lake District , Mrs did . |
| 7 | The spring of 1915 thus found the Allies dug in opposite the German Army , which had been halted on the Marne . |
| 8 | On Jan. 16 it was reported that an alliance had been struck between the PLO and Amal at the main flashpoint of the fighting at Iqlim al-Tofah . |
| 9 | Le Pen , meanwhile , had been cleared by a Versailles court on July 2 of " publicly insulting " the Minister for Public Services , Michel Durafour in September 1988 , by using the word-play " Durafour-crematoire " ( " four crematoire " having been the normal description for the furnaces used for burning bodies in Nazi Germany ) [ see pp. 36230 ; 37683 ] . |
| 10 | On human rights , China provided information on 800 political prisoners whose names had been presented by the US side in June , but announced no releases . |
| 11 | The question had been raised in the Commons during the debates on the Bill , when Churchill indicated that the Board of Trade hoped for co-operation between labour exchanges and local education authorities ( LEAs ) in the sharing of information , and that in certain instances Juvenile Advisory Committees ( JACs ) could be established . |
| 12 | The Iranian News Agency ( IRNA ) reported on July 1 that Ahmad Muhammad Abu Rahimah had been appointed as the United Arab Emirates ' ( UAE ) first ambassador to Iran since the 1979 revolution . |
| 13 | Towards the end of 1782 Gibson , the new estate manager for Sir Michael le Fleming , wrote to his master informing that a new steward had been appointed at the Coniston Mines on the 10th of November . |
| 14 | Interestingly , the date of the earliest document signed by Hocazade — mid-Shawwal 877 — more or less coincides with that of a recording that on 23 Shawwal 877/23 March 1473 Efdalzade had been appointed to the Sahn in place of Ali Kuscu who , Uzuncarsili says , had been transferred to the muderrislik of the Ayasofya medrese , one of the posts which Molla Husrev had held in conjunction with the kadilik of Istanbul . |
| 15 | The schoolfellows had been appointed to the Racer together through the efforts of a family friend of the Rogerses , and they serve together for much of their time at sea , occasionally allotted to different ships so as to give the author freedom to range more widely in space and circumstance . |
| 16 | The 59-member BLDC had been appointed by the NPC in June 1985 [ see p. 33660 ] and had published a first draft of the Basic Law in May 1988 and a second draft in February 1989 [ see p. 36763 ] . |
| 17 | A resolution calling for the holding of a plebiscite had been adopted by the UN in January 1949 . |
| 18 | In the last 12 months , as well as losing a number of small commercial businesses the town has lost it 's fish shop which had been run by the Crudgington family for more than a century . |
| 19 | Mr Ackerman stressed that in the five years the 20-pupil day school had been run by the Mannafields Christian Education Association at Carberry , near Musselburgh , East Lothian , no pupil had been punished in this way . |
| 20 | In February 1988 he had been indicted by a Miami grand jury for having conspired between 1981 and 1986 with the Medellín drugs cartel of Colombia to traffick drugs into the USA . |
| 21 | At an early stage four bishops had joined the queen in Suffolk ; six had later witnessed the proclamation of Prince Edward as keeper of the realm ; towards the end , more than a dozen prelates had been coerced by the London mob into support for the queen 's party . |
| 22 | She and Jack had been swimming in the Thames near Twickenham . |
| 23 | Over the centuries , a string of mills had been built along the Chelt , virtually all of them corn mills . |
| 24 | Mughal-style stations had been built in the Lucknow — Agra area , often , as at Nawab , single platform stations with an overall roof framed by minarets — and with a side pavilion capped by domed open towers . |
| 25 | Alfoxden had been built by the St Albyns early in the eighteenth century close to the centre of their ancient park . |
| 26 | Since 1946 , approximately thirty new towns had been built throughout the UK . |
| 27 | Our village had been written into the Domesday Book . |
| 28 | Einstein , which had been written for the Philip Glass Ensemble , was followed by Satyagraha ( ‘ truth-force ) , a more lyrical opera utilising full orchestra which was concerned with Gandhi 's early years in South Africa and the development of his philosophy of non-violence . |
| 29 | The defendants were bailees of barley belonging to X which had been pledged to the Y Bank by means of warehouse receipts . |
| 30 | The demonstrations had been planned by the Zimbabwe Congress of Trade Unions ( ZCTU ) as part of its campaign for the suspension of the government 's economic reform programme [ see p. 38751 ] and the repeal of new labour legislation . |