Example sentences of "he [vb past] been [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 2 | Yesterday party leaders voiced their total opposition to violent acts and one SNP MP , Andrew Welsh , claimed he had been misquoted at a recent press conference when he apparently would not rule out sabotage . |
| 3 | Many forest landowners were in fact heavily amerced by Passelewe : in 1264 the Abbot of Bruern paid 500 marks for acquittance of all the trespasses of which he had been convicted at the Oxford Forest Eyre in 1245 . |
| 4 | He had been deafened at the age of ten and " spoke fairly well . " |
| 5 | Nothing was said , but his Lieutenant knew he had been reprieved at the last minute . |
| 6 | But if he had been in the water for some time , it was unlikely that he had been killed at the spot where his body had fetched up , and equally unlikely that the weapon which killed him was there to find . |
| 7 | He had been placed at the head of the table , a Solomon come to judgement , but a far from happy one . |
| 8 | He had been trained at the Douai seminary and had been taught the art not only of argument but also of secrecy . |
| 9 | He had been interrogated at the Comando di Legione in Parma before being locked up in the Citadella to await removal to Germany . |
| 10 | All round his dingy housing-association flat in Stoke Newington , close to Amhurst Road , where he had been arrested at the beginning of the 1970s , were the signs of the new affluence . |
| 11 | It was true that he had been educated at a public school , but he managed to disguise this handicap very well . |
| 12 | He had been educated at a progressive , artistic school in the south , with a radical tradition very different ( despite its ostensible similarities ) from the one in which Alix had been reared . |
| 13 | In 1302–3 his son and heir John alleged that he had been murdered at the instigation of Walter Langton , bishop of Coventry [ q.v . ] . |