Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [v-ing] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Mr Rowse refused to see Rhoda any more because she 'd been seen talking to Young Catholics Against Witchcraft . |
| 2 | Saad had taken his own life the night the news had gone round that he 'd been caught sleeping with a travelling shepherd . |
| 3 | He had been taught drawing at Eton by ‘ Sammy ’ and Sidney Evans , of the long-established dynasty of drawing masters , and in Oxford at the Ruskin School and by the Slade professor ( Sir ) Charles Holmes [ q.v. ] , but he was over forty before his individual style was formed . |
| 4 | A Scotsman had been witnessed hammering on the door of the nearby Bull public house . |
| 5 | A small crossbow bolt had been sent smashing into the back of his skull . |
| 6 | Bratti had been discovered spying for a rival security service . |
| 7 | Det Con Turnbull recognised two of the youths and his inquiries revealed they had been overheard talking about cash and an off-licence . |
| 8 | Yeltsin 's speech also covered the issues of land ownership , the need to counter crime and corruption , for which a group had been formed consisting of Vice-President Aleksandr Rutskoi , First Deputy Chairman of the Supreme Soviet , Sergei Filatov , Security Council Secretary Skokov and State Secretary Gennady Burbulis , and the need for an arms law to combat the " blatant pilfering of military property " . |
| 9 | A correspondent of the Federal Government 's News Agency of Nigeria ( NAN ) reported that the Benin flag had been seen flying at places within Nigeria and beyond the recognised border . |
| 10 | It was such a ‘ whisperer ’ who had informed Jack that men answering the brothers ' description had been seen drinking in an alehouse on Winkfield Plain , not five miles from Maidenhead , the day after the robbery . |
| 11 | Counsel 's second argument was that all the evidence presented to the court was that the defendant had been seen engaging in actual violence , but not threatening it , as the section requires , On this submission the Court concluded that there was sufficient evidence in the narrative presented to the jury from which they were entitled to conclude that there was threatening behaviour . |
| 12 | On other occasions , he had been seen walking in the surrounding countryside at the dead of night , carrying sacks full of rocks . |
| 13 | Now that Coleman had been seen working with DEA agents in Cyprus , there was a clear risk that he might also have been identified by one of their Beirut informants as a friend of Tony Asmar 's . |
| 14 | Cars had been seen dodging through the lay-by to avoid red lights , it was said , and the pedestrian refuge between the road and lay-by was not wide enough to stand with a pram . |
| 15 | Anne asked , but Maureen said she thought Kathleen had been hit returning from work . |
| 16 | ( It is somewhat remarkable to note that after such stirring events , the committee went on to draw the master 's attention to the fact that a horse had been observed grazing in the paddock , which had been let for sheep only . |
| 17 | Then the fear reached him that there had been an assault — a ship had been seen , moored , the men had been observed returning with limbs dressed for wounds . |
| 18 | PRINCESS Diana was at the centre of a mystery last night after a US paper claimed she had been recorded chatting to a man declaring his love for her . |
| 19 | The crash of the Sea King helicopter in which twenty members of the S.A.S. died was reported as the regiment 's single greatest loss since a whole troop with an aircraft had been posted missing in the Second World War . |
| 20 | He hailed almost certainly from the region of the lower Loire , where a close kinsman ( perhaps his father ) had been killed fighting for Louis the Pious in 834 and already before 842 another probable close kinsman , Rainald , was count of Herbauge and dux of Nantes . |
| 21 | Although there had been no evidence on their computers of the shapechangers ' craft being on the planet , it had been monitored heading towards this unwelcoming world . |
| 22 | After I had been kept waiting for a few moments in an ante-room , I was ushered into the main boardroom where Dr Barton and six colleagues were seated around a long , rectangular , polished table . |
| 23 | Powerhouse walked out after complaining that they had been kept waiting for 40 minutes for the court and Components Bureau claimed the points by default and then appealed unsuccessfully against the Scottish Association 's decision to rearrange the fixture . |
| 24 | Despite the urgency of the summons , he had been kept waiting in Stevenson 's outer office long enough to read the early edition of the Evening Standard . |
| 25 | A much more glorious surprise was achieved on Fylde Flyer by Piggott after he and the rest of the Abernant Stakes field had been kept waiting in a cold , damp wind while Snaadee took his own unconscionable time about wandering down to the start . |
| 26 | A maze of low stone walls bounded the twisting paths of the front lawn , and one wall of a former next-door cottage had been left standing as an ornament , with glassless windows . |
| 27 | Grandson Richard had been left standing by himself , watching his own shoulder nervously . |
| 28 | He did not permit the line to open until several telegraph posts which had been left standing in the roadway when the road was widened , were removed . |
| 29 | I took him to about twenty houses and had made love to him on the splintery boards of about half of them before he decided that this was not a suitable town for his mother to live in — too quiet , too far from London — and the estate agent , whose car had been left standing in leafy side-streets for too many unprofitable hours , gave me a week 's wages and said he thought another job might suit me better . |
| 30 | There was an almost audible sigh of relief around the world that someone had been caught tampering with the dictionary . |