Example sentences of "have be cheated of " in BNC.
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| 1 | In more severe cases , the performer awakes , as if from a deep sleep , to realise that he has been cheated of his just desserts . |
| 2 | Fury returned as he thought how he had been cheated of glory by a treacherous piece of turf , when it had not even been his turn to lead ! |
| 3 | Geoffrey had been cheated of his rights ; Louis was alarmed " and angered by Eleanor 's choice of a new husband , particularly since she had not asked for his consent despite the fact that he continued to style himself " Duke of Aquitaine " and regarded her as his ward . |
| 4 | ‘ Although one assumes David only crossed the border because his niece had been cheated of her crown and gave him no peace until he avenged her , haranguing him with letter after letter . |
| 5 | The PRD , whose supporters proclaimed their candidate Cristóbal Arias as the rightful new state governor , produced copies of every PRD ballot paper in an attempt to prove that Arias had been cheated of victory by the PRI in the July 12 state elections in Michoacán , home state of the PRD 's founder , Cuauhtémoc Cárdenas Solórzano [ see pp. 39000-01 ] . |
| 6 | Bevin remembered the mistakes of the years after 1918 when , he felt , the returning soldiers had been cheated of the social and economic reforms they had a right to expect . |
| 7 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |
| 8 | It was immediately clear , as Max had said , that there had earlier been much blood ; soon clear , too , that the body was that of a comparatively young man ; the body of the man whom Morse had interviewed ( with such distaste ) the previous evening ; the man who had been cheated of the Wolvercote Jewel — and the man who now had been cheated of life . |