Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] the [adj] [noun prp] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I read a short news item in which it was announced that Justine had been hanged the previous Saturday , the 24th , after several postponements of the event . |
| 2 | Fleet Street journalists require a modest range of incentives to make them feel agreeably disposed towards something , and the maiden flight ( on a plane which had been named the Maiden Voyager ) was warmly and comprehensively reported in almost every national daily and Sunday newspaper . |
| 3 | You may have been offered the similar T.buttikoferi , which has the usual bad habits when adult . |
| 4 | The reason is United have been allocated the entire East End . |
| 5 | He and his wife had been involved in offering support and assistance to the family whose eight children had been removed the previous November . |
| 6 | That January issue was the ‘ Revolutionary Oz ’ , complete with Quattrocchi on the Russian Revolution ; Widgery on the Cuban revolutionary Che Guevara , who had been killed the previous October in the Bolivian jungle , and whose name Widgery and Oz spelt throughout as ‘ Geuvara ’ ; and even John Wilcock , whose ‘ Other scenes ’ reappeared in that issue , put in a piece on Regis Debray . |