Example sentences of "[noun prp] [vb past] been [verb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mrs Singh had been visited at home and the head had arranged for me to be present so that I could explain and reinforce any suggestions . |
| 2 | The head told me that Mrs Singh had been coming to school regularly to express concern about Balbinder 's lack of progress . |
| 3 | Khmara had been arrested inside the Supreme Soviet on Nov. 17 , 1990 , as a result of an incident during the October Revolution holiday on Nov. 7 when he and his co-defendants had been involved in a scuffle with an undercover KGB ( State Security ) officer in a pedestrian subway in Kiev . |
| 4 | Spencer had been spoiled , treated for far too long as a baby and he had grown up knowing how to twist his mother around his little finger . |
| 5 | Her steely determination , however , had worked , and that very weekend Earl Spencer had been released from hospital and moved into a suite at the Dorchester Hotel , until he was strong enough to be moved home to Northamptonshire . |
| 6 | Mr Milmo said that it was ‘ utterly and completely false ’ to suggest that Mr Clay had been influenced by the prospect of some plum job when he retired . |
| 7 | Von Stein had been checking the wall clock in the laboratory then looking back at his notes for some time . |
| 8 | Edgar and Isabella Linton had been invited to lunch , and their mother had agreed , on condition that her darlings were kept carefully apart from ‘ that wicked boy ’ . |
| 9 | Corbett had been snooping there and seized a juicy morsel , first visiting his old friend at St Bartholomew 's and then the poisoner in Faltour 's Lane . |
| 10 | Corbett had been accompanied north by four messengers — chosen by the Chancellor from his own household . |
| 11 | He should have sent the child to me from the moment she could feed herself , Roirbak thought , sure Ari had been contaminated and spoiled by the life she 'd led at Taler 's Bump . |
| 12 | Ari had been struck by the smells of Arcady more than anything . |
| 13 | Robert Trevor Jones , prosecuting , at Chester Crown Court , said Lound had been evicted from Valiant Close , Warrington because of rent arrears . |
| 14 | By this stage , Field Marshal Lord Alexander of Tunis had been dragooned by Churchill to become Minister of Defence and , in effect , ‘ overlord ’ of the Admiralty , War Office and Air Ministry . |
| 15 | Creed had been appointed chairman , yet there was no sense of celebration . |
| 16 | The NCR spokeswoman denied claims that Teradata had been guaranteed its independence from NCR , saying that from the outset , management had made clear its intention to merge operations . |
| 17 | Leading Kuwaiti exiles convened in Taif in October for a " popular congress " at which the Sabahs indicated to opposition leaders that new democratic institutions would be created once Kuwait had been freed [ see p. 37759 ] . |
| 18 | This latest incident , effectively coinciding with the claim that Iraq 's governor in Kuwait had been assassinated [ see above ] , followed reports of an escalation in resistance activity . |
| 19 | She was on her own : Dr Neil had been called out some time ago to attend a woman in childbirth , and Matey had gone to visit an old friend in St John 's Wood , and she was the sole mistress of the doctor 's house in Vetch Street . |
| 20 | Compagnie des Machines Bull SA had been looking to 1992 as a year of recovery , but that was not quite the way things turned out , and after provisions , the French state-owned company saw even worse figures than in 1991 , losses equivalent to $847m at the current $0.18 rate of exchange compared with $595m a year ago . |
| 21 | La Marche , Limoges and the lordships of the Pyrenees had been brought to recognize his authority . |
| 22 | In 1935 Uruguay acceded to Brazilian pressure to break links with Moscow because of allegations , apparently not unfounded , that the Soviet trading office in Montevideo had been used as a conduit for funds to the Brazilian insurgents . |
| 23 | All in all , Mo had been given a pretty torrid time by the nation 's voters . |
| 24 | These manoeuvres were doomed to failure , for both Ruzski and Brusilov had been ordered to turn northwest , with the object of taking in rear all Austrian forces engaged with , or pursuing , Plehve . |
| 25 | I was in Italy and read in the paper that Paul Van Kempen had been appointed as General Music Director in Aachen . |
| 26 | Some said at the time that Leviathan had been written for Cromwell , and indeed Hobbes did say that it supported a ‘ conscientious obedience to the present government ’ of the Protectorate . |
| 27 | Leading Tory Lady Olga Maitland had been pencilled in by the South Belfast Conservative Association to go on the hustings with candidates last weekend . |
| 28 | Adams had been charged with indecently assaulting three children . |
| 29 | While Party Politics was a topical tip seized by thousands of once-a-year punters only five days before the General Election , Adams had been talking of the gelding winning a National for nearly two years . |
| 30 | Mitra had been considered the leading rival to Ramos for Aquino 's endorsement . |