Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] [pers pn] [prep] [noun sg] " 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 | 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 . |
| 6 | Her cousins and servants had been fussing over her since dawn , and the heat in the cathedral was oppressive . |
| 7 | 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 . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | 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 . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | We must find the eternal friend that has been bidden within us throughout time and which is the profound mystery of man . |
| 12 | " 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 . |
| 13 | Erika felt goose-pimples on her arms and the thought crossed her mind that , despite all that had been said to her about courage , perhaps she was n't really cut out for stardom , after all . |
| 14 | The council are aware that various complaints have been made to them concerning land opposite ours where tipping has taken place , including the disposal of asbestos . |
| 15 | Truth to tell , we have been waiting for it since Genesis 12 . |
| 16 | They must have been moving alongside us in cover , taking our measure , and they had two archers ahead , one either side the track . |
| 17 | Buckley was a man in possession of secrets , and a 400-page confession had allegedly already been extracted from him under torture . |
| 18 | I like it when someone spots that a record being reviewed has been played by me on Radio 1 |
| 19 | As to which sorts of things will produce these sensations , that has been settled for us by nature ( ultimately God ) in such a way that normal men will inevitably agree as to the colour and smell of things . |
| 20 | Although it said that he would be ‘ interrogated and tried according to the country 's law ’ , to AI 's knowledge no formal charges have been brought against him in court . |
| 21 | ‘ Is anything wrong ? ’ he queried , and Belinda realised that she had been staring at him in silence for far too long , as she tried to decide what to say . |
| 22 | That rule dealt with originating applications under the Act and provided by subrule ( 7 ) that the contemnor might be punished notwithstanding that a copy of the injunction had not been served on him in accordance with Ord. 29 , r. 1(2) and that no notice had been issued or served upon him under Ord. 29 , r. 1(4) — a notice to show cause why there should not be a committal . |
| 23 | ‘ When you did not come to see him I made myself a vow that you would face reality and not some story that has been hammered into you since childhood . |
| 24 | They said he answered some of their questions sarcastically and spoke in Russian , even though he is bilingual and the questions had been put to him in Moldavian . |
| 25 | ‘ We 'd been sitting with him in hospital keeping his mind occupied , but when our visiting times changed and he was alone he would lie there and think . |
| 26 | ‘ Thank goodness you 're back ’ said one of the clerks who had been seconded to us from County Hall . |
| 27 | People have been talking to him about sickness and that if an office has erm people that are off sick a lot more than another office they 're at a disadvantage . |
| 28 | ‘ Please tell them , ’ he said , ‘ a warrant has been issued against them for manslaughter . ’ |
| 29 | Not surprisingly the threat of library dissolutions , especially those which librarians were claiming had been forced on them by government cut-backs , failed to get an immediate response from Mrs Thatcher 's administration . |
| 30 | As in many similar Romantic writings on the left of the political spectrum , the working class is considered authentic by virtue of precisely those attributes which have been forced upon it by oppression from above . |