Example sentences of "[been] [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] the country " in BNC.
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| 1 | A dozen of the company 's senior executives have been caught up in the country 's ever-widening corruption scandal . |
| 2 | It was just as well Kenneth 's phone was n't engaged because , presumably , if he 'd been chatting to John Major about the situation in the Middle East , or talking to David Mellor about fun , poor old Johan would have been chucked out of the country . |
| 3 | But it 's possible the antiques and art may have already been shipped out of the country . |
| 4 | By now a total of 26 reservoirs had been sealed off throughout the country mainly owing to blooms of blue-green algae . |
| 5 | Perhaps they have been driven out of the country and gone abroad because extra conditions have been imposed here . |
| 6 | The present writer was co-ordinator of the UUUC ‘ Advice and Relief Centres ’ of which several hundred had been set up across the country . |
| 7 | A computermail database network has even been set up around the country for fans to debate the killer of Laura Palmer , the lovely blonde homecoming queen whose body mysteriously washes onto a river bank near a lumbermill in the fictional Pacific northwest town of Twin Peaks . |
| 8 | A chain of self-help groups has already been set up throughout the country by concerned parents . |
| 9 | Yeah , oh yeah I remember it quite well I , I can remember that I , the only parts of Harlow I liked were the country lanes , I did n't like all the new houses , but then I 'd been brought up in the country |
| 10 | It is believed the haul has already been smuggled out of the country . |
| 11 | It 's estimated that half a million pounds worth have been smuggled out of the country already this year . |
| 12 | Pindar pleads with Arkesilas for one of these nobles who is out of favour , a ‘ pollarded oak-tree ’ — cp. the tyrant 's maxim about ‘ pruning the tallest poppies ’ on p. 51 ; and in the late sixth century when the balance of strength was the other way , Arkesilas III had been forced out of the country to Samos . |