Example sentences of "[pers pn] have been [verb] by certain " in BNC.

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1 The witnesses told the court since going to the police they 've been intimidated by certain people on the estate .
2 The witnesses told the court since going to the police they 've been intimidated by certain people on the estate .
3 After all , people have always wanted to do violence to those who stood in their way when they were attempting to commit robberies ; but they have been bound by certain conventions of which they were unaware .
4 Show Geoff some charity I WOULD like to draw to the attention of all regular shoppers and visitors to Liverpool , who have heard the lovely voice of Geoff Caddick who does lots of charity work for the Newborn Baby Appeal , to the fact that he has been harassed by certain local business people who wish to move him on .
5 Later , after he had been influenced by certain paintings by Cézanne , Picasso began to treat solid forms in a more arbitrary , empirical or experimental fashion and to explore the possibilities of representing them without the aid of traditional perspective .
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