Example sentences of "[prep] be [verb] [art] " in BNC.
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1 | LINFORD CHRISTIE raises his arms in a triumphant salute after being crowned the fastest man on earth . |
2 | A fortnight after being made a minister , this raconteur said that he had joined the Labour Party simply to make sure that ‘ they did nothing too silly ’ . |
3 | A £5-A-RACE flagman was today facing the prospect of disciplinary action over the Grand National fiasco after being made the scapegoat in the official inquiry report . |
4 | Apparently , up until quite recently all Warwick basses were made with aluminium truss rods which obviously are not as strong as steel ones and are liable to break after being adjusted a few times . |
5 | ‘ And after being sent a poison pen letter and then meeting you again , hitching a lift seems pretty tame stuff ! ’ |
6 | Goalkeeper Stuart Ford is poised to join Scarborough on a one-year contract after being granted a free transfer by Rotherham United . |
7 | Sportsmen who believe themselves to be blessed with natural advantages , after being told so by others , become depressed by the lack of success of the magnitude they had come to expect after being fed the natural ability line . |
8 | I was dragged out of bed half asleep after being kidnapped the night before . |
9 | Mr Jason Connery , the son , won £35,000 libel damages ‘ after being branded a coward ’ by a ‘ tabloid ’ and then declared his name ‘ vindicated ’ . |
10 | One nurse in the study told how she had to give up training after being branded a trouble-maker for complaining about a male nurse who continually groped her . |
11 | After being sentenced the sex-slave image remains , but she has now become a wronged mother ( Daily Mail ) or mum ( Sun ) . |
12 | Alan Curtis , the former Welsh international striker , yesterday signed for Swansea after being given a free transfer by Cardiff . |
13 | TRANSPLANT patient Lisa Strange , 12 , was fighting for her life yesterday after being given a new heart and lungs . |
14 | Hounslow came up with £100,000 after being given a limit of £10,000 . |
15 | ‘ My sister Dorothy died from stomach cancer just eight weeks after being given a clean bill of health by a Manchester hospital . |
16 | After being given a few minutes to study the diagram the sender is told to go ahead and the time is noted . |
17 | DARLINGTON midfield player Gary Gill wants to play abroad after being given a free transfer by new manager Ray Hankin . |
18 | In May , the electorate of Wear Valley chose the Liberals after being given a multitude of promises which have yet to be fulfilled . |
19 | Middlesbrough striker Bernie Slaven yesterday joined second division promotion-chasers Port Vale on a 15-month contract after being given a free transfer . |
20 | With punters across the country totally baffled , the field regrouped and , after being given the go-ahead by course officials after an eight minute break , started again , this time jumping the offending obstacle . |
21 | Niki Lauda displayed courage beyond all recognition in 1976 when , six weeks after being given the Last Rites , he was back behind the wheel of his Ferrari picking up points in the Italian Grand Prix at Monza . |
22 | Apart from the inherent improbability that the Lockerbie investigators never thought to ask for it , that it was left to a clerk to print out a copy on her own initiative before the computer wiped the record , only to return weeks later from holiday to find that still no one had asked for it , and that the BKA , after being given the list , sat on it for months before passing it along to the Scottish police , there remained the problem of the FBI teletype which left open the possibility that no such bag from Malta was ever loaded on Flight 103 . |
23 | A friend of Ken 's had just taken his life after being given the choice of going to prison or a mental hospital . |
24 | LITTLE Laura Davies can not wait to start school after being given the all-clear to travel home following her double transplant operation in America five months ago . |
25 | Pawar was eventually sworn in as Defence Minister on June 26 after being replaced the previous day as Chief Minister of Maharashtra by Sudhakarrao Naik . |
26 | GARY DRAKE , the former British junior hardcourt champion , won a £15,000 car after being nominated the best player in the finals of the Vauxhall Indoor Tennis Trophy Tournament . |
27 | Mr Major spoke out during Prime Minister 's question time when MP John Carlisle ( C Luton N ) raised the case of a headteacher who , after being awarded a salary increase , had written to Education Secretary John Patten ‘ telling him he could stuff his pay rise ’ . |
28 | Sefton councillors this week stripped the club of its entertainments licence after being handed a police dossier detailing violent and rowdy incidents . |
29 | YOUNG riding sensation Adrian Maguire misses the last two days of Cheltenham 's Mackeson Gold Cup meeting after being handed a four-day whip ban by the Wincanton stewards yesterday . |
30 | Calm before the storm ? — Ray Hankin yesterday after being handed the ‘ mountainous ’ task of keeping Darlington 's struggling football club in the Third Division . |