Example sentences of "[been] [verb] [prep] his [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | He was smarting from the clerical opposition that had been marshaled against his nonsectarian charter for Cornell University . |
| 2 | Henley rower , Steve Redgrave has been honoured for his outstanding achievement in the sport . |
| 3 | ‘ The messages have all been placed in his pending file , Ms Penumbra . |
| 4 | Tom had recently been referred by his mainstream school to the psychological Service for assessment under the 1981 Act because teachers felt they should receive additional support for Tom 's periods in mainstream school . |
| 5 | It was announced through local media sources on Sept. 24 that Carlos Aldana , 50 , generally recognized as the country 's third most important leader , had been stripped of his overall responsibility for ideology , foreign policy and culture . |
| 6 | He had never been stripped of his Bulgarian citizenship , and it was officially reported on June 12 that he had been granted a Bulgarian passport . |
| 7 | Khalid al-Hassan , a member of the central committee of Al-Fatah ( the largest group within the Palestine Liberation Organization-PLO ) and chairman of the Palestine National Council 's foreign affairs committee , was reported on Dec. 19 to have been stripped of his Kuwaiti citizenship . |
| 8 | All have been exposed to his scarifying eye and his audacious judgments ; he has projected on all his volatile wit and a searching wisdom . |
| 9 | Alec and I had been climbing on his right-hand side . |
| 10 | Moreover , this was not one of those results that had been confined to his private papers , but it had been published in the Proceedings of the Royal Society . |
| 11 | He has been installed in his new role as writing development worker at Darlington Library and plans to inspire aspiring authors to follow his example . |
| 12 | The Chancel Furnishings and Reredos have been installed by his deaf and other friends in recognition of the great happiness which he brought into their lives by his untold energy and also to commemorate the magnificent work he did on behalf of the Deaf throughout the country . |
| 13 | But England coach Mal Reilly insisted the 26-year-old , who has scored 23 tries this season , has not been disciplined for his outspoken comments on Kiwi referee Dennis Hale before the Cup final . |
| 14 | A bottomless dustbin , a plastic oil container and a private selection of empty bottles have already been added to his private junk heap , waiting to be collected one day when he has time . |
| 15 | Walter J. Moore 's Physical Chemistry , which first appeared in 1950 and ran to five editions , has now been succeeded by his Basic Physical Chemistry ( Prentice-Hall ) . |
| 16 | Or had he been immersed in his Black Arts , calling up a demon from hell in some lonely wood or deserted copse ? |
| 17 | David might simply have been overwhelmed by his financial responsibilities towards his mother , and could see no immediate future for a life with you and did n't want to tie you down . |
| 18 | You 've been listening to his scaremongering nonsense . |
| 19 | The right hon. Gentleman has not been listening to his hon. Friends . |
| 20 | On the line the only affair that had n't been ruined by his previous , all-consuming life in the SAS , or destroyed by his own turbulent and possessive nature . |
| 21 | It was a kind of verse at which he himself excelled — there are those who say that it is to be found just under the surface of some of his apparently " serious " poetry — and Old Possum 's Book of Practical Cats has the spirit , if not the content , of the Bolovian stanzas which he had been writing since his early twenties . |
| 22 | Exhausted by long hours of study at night , and finding it impossible to publish any of the poems he had been writing in his spare time , his health and spirits began to suffer . |
| 23 | It is not the first time the 49-year-old premier 's health has been threatened by his demanding schedule . |
| 24 | Darling 's mark had been made on his final Test , however , with three catches in England 's first innings , two of them at short leg quite startling . |
| 25 | They alleged that the product marketed by his company could only have been made by his wrongful use of their business secrets . |
| 26 | Nicholas had been living with his widowed mother in London . |
| 27 | It is generally agreed that Haydn was the father of the string quartet , and he set the highest standards : the quartets of Beethoven and Schubert could hardly have been written without his brilliant examples of how it should be done . |
| 28 | Zeus 's head is lost , but seems to have been turned to his proper right , and on this , the side of good omen , one would expect Pelops to stand , as he does in fig. 124 . |
| 29 | He had been acting in his departmental role , gathering information for Mr Parkinson , when he contacted Eurotunnel . |
| 30 | In more severe cases , the performer awakes , as if from a deep sleep , to realise that he has been cheated of his just desserts . |