Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [pron] [prep] [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | As a member of the Select Committee , I was extremely concerned when Mr. Rimington , Director General of the Health and Safety Executive , revealed in his evidence that he had not been aware of the restrictions that Lord Cullen felt had been placed upon him in respect of investigating labour relations . |
| 2 | been given to him at baptism ( Luke 3:22 ) ; |
| 3 | The fundamental rationale underlying the law of confidence is that it can prevent a person divulging information which has been given to him in confidence , on an express or implicit understanding that the information should not be disclosed to others or otherwise used by the recipient of the information . |
| 4 | It had been given to her in case an emergency arose , but it seemed to Mrs Blakey that the atmosphere which had developed in the house could n't be called an emergency . |
| 5 | There is nothing more I can do to help them , nor can they collect any low-preference votes that may have been given to them by voters whose higher-preference votes have been given to candidates of other parties . |
| 6 | As a way of thanks , we handed Thomas a wee bit of Scotland that had been given to us by Frank Brown , a teacher at Musselburgh Grammar School . |
| 7 | Lady Elizabeth Campbell , sixteen , gentle , interested in poetry , cuddly , was discussing the matter of her marriage , which had just been broken to her at dinner by her father , Archibald Campbell , Earl of Argyll , King James the Fourth 's Lieutenant of the Isles , chief of Clan Diarmaid ; and her teeth , which were indeed passable , were much in evidence . |
| 8 | Her cousins and servants had been fussing over her since dawn , and the heat in the cathedral was oppressive . |
| 9 | Any tax charge under ss671 and 672 is assessed under Case VI of Schedule D , and the settlor is entitled to any deduction or relief against it as if it had been received by him as income . |
| 10 | In computing the liability to income tax of a settlor chargeable under s677 the same deductions and reliefs shall be allowed as would have been allowed if the amount treated as income by virtue of s677 had been received by him as income . |
| 11 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 12 | Gloucester seems already to have had control of the forest , and granted a fee from two closes there in 1473 , which suggests that it may have been assigned to him as warden of the west march , although this is nowhere explicitly stated . |
| 13 | It was not too deep or strong for horses but a tree had been felled across it for foot-passengers . |
| 14 | Several groups of Americans were turned away despite protests that tables had been booked for them by Čedok or by their hotels . |
| 15 | We must find the eternal friend that has been bidden within us throughout time and which is the profound mystery of man . |
| 16 | Paul had done less well than had been expected of him at Balliol , not through his own fault . |
| 17 | This had been prepared for her by Dolores , or one of the maids . |
| 18 | She 'd been looking into it for Ken anyway — as I told you . |
| 19 | ‘ We 've been looking for you for ages , ’ he said . |
| 20 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for days , now , ’ he said . |
| 21 | I 've been looking for you for years , but I only knew the name that she used to call you — Prince Charming . |
| 22 | ‘ I 've been looking for you for years — Prince Charming . ’ |
| 23 | ‘ I 've been looking for it for years , but I 'm not in charge of promotion and the people senior to me in my department are some of the most brilliant minds in England , and elsewhere for that matter . ’ |
| 24 | I 've been looking after myself of course and I got together her lunch at sits , I sit all the time . |
| 25 | He has been looking after it since Tuesday morning . |
| 26 | " See you , " said Alice , and turned away from the girl and went in , feeling that the 556 — at least — young couples with their spotty , frustrated infants had been presented to her by Fate , as her responsibility . |
| 27 | Some of them may succeed in keeping abreast of course-work but will make little attempt to understand what has been presented to them during lectures and tutorial periods . |
| 28 | I noticed in particular a large placard placed on the floor in a corner , which I assumed to have been presented to him by Montgomery Belgion , who had been a prisoner of war in Germany . |
| 29 | And finally we impeached a man called Waddell who 's been boasting to everyone in Barlinnie Jail that he and another man did it . ’ |
| 30 | There were recluses in this age , like St Romuald who resigned the archbishopric of Ravenna almost as soon as it had been thrust upon him by Otto III in order to lead a life of private prayer and asceticism . |