Example sentences of "and be [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The headman of a nearby village had saved the life of one of the Greeks and been rewarded by the Government . |
| 2 | Rioja told them that the victims had been caught in acts of sodomy and been condemned by the camp council . |
| 3 | One could not help respecting the man who still stood firmly for his rights , after having fought and suffered and been defeated in the struggle for their maintenance . ’ |
| 4 | 14–5–1844 " The Session considering that James Gibson , under process for the crime of fornication , ( with Ann Darroch ) , has submitted to the discipline of the Church , appeared publically and been rebuked before the congregation , and hoping from the professions he now makes , as well as the readiness with which he submitted to discipline , that he is penitent , do now absolve him from censure and admit him to the enjoyment of privileges . " |
| 5 | Its destruction and decay may have lodged in folk memory and been Christianised into the version we have today . |
| 6 | The tentative diagnosis was that he had been too close to Daine 's fantasies and been subsumed into the structure of the Dream . |
| 7 | In his day a College of Advanced Technology , it has since grown in size and been raised to the status of a university , but without putting on any airs and graces . |
| 8 | There has been a national style revolution in Britain which has influenced and been influenced by the youth culture of football spectatorship . |
| 9 | He had applied to and been accepted by the Officer Training Corps of the university . |
| 10 | He , who had been fêted in Munich , had talked with the elector and other noblemen , and been treated with the respect due to a great artist , now had to take his place in the archiepiscopal pecking-order — below the valets , and only slightly higher than the cooks . |
| 11 | He could think of no man , or woman , in the village that he could have gone to and talked with , and been reassured on the question of his guilt . |
| 12 | Most of them had drowned and been interred in the mud : even today more than 70 years later , farmers ploughing the fields unearth the bones of these unidentified men . |
| 13 | It is pitiful to see the agony of a naïve dog that has nosed up too close to a skunk and been sprayed in the face . |
| 14 | Tanzanian ministers had seen Kenyan and Ugandan television and been struck by the extent to which these stations relied on imported material such as Rawhide , Bonanza , The Lucy Show , Steptoe and Son and the like . |
| 15 | Based in Whale Beach in Sydney , he has featured in ( Australian ) Penthouse and Playboy and been named among the country 's fifty most eligible bachelors . |
| 16 | For a man who sounds like he 's been to hell and back and been burned along the way , Mould has returned to heal old wounds . |
| 17 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 18 | Illumination of the social dimension of the revolution has at once encouraged and been complemented by the work of revisionist economic and political historians . |
| 19 | Royal protection chief Commander Bob Marsh also dismissed the paper 's other claims that the Yard had received information from spy chiefs and been told by the Palace to reveal Di 's movements . |
| 20 | The mansio was constructed in the Hadrianic period , following the evacuation of the nearby fort , but it seems to have gone out of use and been demolished by the end of the second century . |
| 21 | If Sir Kenneth had done a better piece of work , and been disliked by the City simply for being too tough in representing the interests of investors , would that have been enough to keep his job ? |
| 22 | The matter that has given me most cause for admiration is the way in which he has conducted himself while the horrible events have gone on and been reported in the press . |
| 23 | People would have grabbed door handles to get out and been sucked into the fabric of the door . |
| 24 | And been left in the ocean to rot . |
| 25 | The two girls had been fetched by car , the Prince 's car , from the salon and been taken to the river at Beni Suef , where the dahabeeyah had called in for them . |
| 26 | The Pentagon claims that the marines had shown their papers and been passed through the roadblock , when the Panamanians opened fire . |
| 27 | People had gone up to a house and been knocking on the door waiting for someone to come because the light had come on and they thought there must be somebody in because they switched the light on when they saw me come up the drive , and these are visitors . |
| 28 | The most vulnerable young people now leave school without qualifications and are selected for the underclass through one of the Government 's YTS schemes . |
| 29 | They produce the octave above the natural note of the string and are indicated by the sign O placed above the note . |
| 30 | The mayor 's stall is in the choir , so at the appropriate moment the civic party rise and are escorted from the nave to the choir — and out of sight of the members of the congregation . |