Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] [num ord] " in BNC.
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| 1 | well I think Dawn is quite happy now , I mean I think she felt as though she 'd been rushed at first , but I mean |
| 2 | His solicitor said for some reason he 'd been involved since last December in a campaign of total destruction of both himself and other people , but now there was some hope for the future . |
| 3 | She 'd been found at last . |
| 4 | An earlier breakthrough by an enemy motor rifle division supported by tanks and artillery had been halted by 6th Armoured Brigade , of which the Royal Scots form a part . |
| 5 | First George Escolmbe , an Oxford graduate , had been appointed on 14th September 1691 , and then on 20th January 1693 the Goldsmiths " unanimously agreed that William Dickens shall be appointed schoolmaster of the said town in the room of Timothy Dobson " . |
| 6 | A new head of History had been appointed for next term to release the pastoral coordinator from a ‘ caretaker ’ role as head of History , a scale 3 second in department for English had been appointed by promoting an existing member of the department and an early retirement application had been granted . |
| 7 | In 1987 the Long Gilt future accounted for more than half the trades on LIFFE but , while still trading strongly , it had been relegated to third place by 1990 , having been outstripped by both the new German Government bond ( " Bund " ) contract and the Short Sterling contract in importance . |
| 8 | May 1865 , shortly after President Lincoln had been assassinated on 14th . |
| 9 | The four persons against whom the murder charges had been announced on 6th January 1973 had likewise been travelling in a motor car in which an unlicensed pistol had been found . |
| 10 | No part of it had been exercised at 31st March 1991 . |
| 11 | On May 16 two white mine officials were killed in clashes at the nearby President Steyn gold mine , where black miners had been dismissed after first being attacked by their white colleagues for wearing ANC emblems . |
| 12 | Following the elections to the Basque parliament on Oct. 28 , 1990 , the formation of a new regional government had been delayed for three months due to the breakdown of talks between the two parties which had made up the previous governing coalition — the Basque Nationalist Party ( PNV ) , which had emerged as the largest single party , with 22 seats , and the Basque Socialist Party ( PSE-PSOE ) which had been beaten into second place . |
| 13 | His depression had been caused at first by what he considered to be the disturbing condition of the victors after the war : he was uneasy about the foreign policy of both England and the United States , as well as about the intentions of Russia . |
| 14 | Yesterday 's mass picket had been fuelled by last week 's decision at the Court of Session to allow meetings at the gates , and by the wave of support for the sacked workers at a rally in Dundee on Saturday . |
| 15 | The long-awaited supercomputer had been promised for last year , but the target date was later pushed back to October 1993 . |
| 16 | The new vessel was one of the last ships to be built at Philips Shipyard , Dartmouth and had been launched on 14th February , 1962 by Lady Crombie , wife of the Chairman of the Board . |
| 17 | The jars had been recycled at last ; Caro 's tomatoes had ripened all at once , last September , and she and Bryony had filled sixteen jars with chutney . |
| 18 | By 1987 the numbers were so huge that the ability of the West to take in all comers was strained No force had been used in last week 's operation , he insisted . |
| 19 | The show , which cost the band $100,000 , had been postponed from last May after objections from Seattle 's city council . |
| 20 | Only the owner was excluded from the common knowledge at Kempton that day : that her horse had been wrestled into second place by an apprentice who could n't anticipate the obvious . |
| 21 | On 19th May Edward moved into the Tower of London to await his Coronation , which had been set for 22nd June . |
| 22 | But they had been issued with first class tickets . |