Example sentences of "[verb] been [vb pp] one [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He has been refused one review already . |
| 2 | then it you know they might have been delayed one way or another . |
| 3 | Rain fell at Monaco — providentially for Prost , who was being pushed to the extreme by the young Ayrton Senna , and would certainly have been overtaken one lap later . |
| 4 | If its home clock said the time was 12.00 a.m. but the sun at the release site indicated 6.00 a.m. the pigeon would infer it had been moved one quarter of the way round the world to the west . |
| 5 | I knew that I should not be able to forget them again until the business had been resolved one way or the other . |
| 6 | B no erm the , the clerical erm staff on the erm , shall we say the traffic side increased a bit because er there was mo more and more demanding work but the ticket office , they went down , erm I have mentioned perhaps before that they had the two box system and there was about eleven , twelve , thirteen girls in there and their duty was to check a box that had been used one day , stock it up with tickets , get it ready for the day after . |
| 7 | He had been offered one interview , but had decided against it because , if he obtained the job , it would have meant travelling a long distance every day . |
| 8 | During the terrible retreat from Mons in late August , certain officers wrote home of their impression that their foot-sore infantry had been accompanied one night by a mysterious force of cavalry , of which no trace could be found next day . |
| 9 | For Theda had been woken one night , a few days after Mr Aycliffe 's visit , by Hector whining next door . |
| 10 | And it says You have been given one injection of tetanus vaccine absorbed and another of tetanus antitoxin . |
| 11 | Madam Speaker , this announcement is now almost a year delayed the firm of Coopers and Lybrand have been paid one point six million pounds to come up with this ass access charging fiasco , surely this house in entitled to the , as entitled as the press to a full statement of the government 's intentions so that they can be answered by . |