Example sentences of "man had be [vb pp] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Jaq was pleased that the little man had been perturbed by the trashing of Vasilariov and the evisceration of other cities , destroyed in order to save them . |
| 2 | The old man had been revered during his lifetime and even more so after his death . |
| 3 | The old man had been plagued by visitors all week . |
| 4 | Police said one man had been charged with breach of the peace and a report was being sent to the procurator fiscal . |
| 5 | Meanwhile , a police spokesman said a local man had been charged in connection with Monday night 's incident and released on bail . |
| 6 | Ian Walker , prosecuting , told Darlington magistrates the man had been followed by a member of staff and had been seen to drop a bag containing the jeans . |
| 7 | And on Christmas Day night Harriet and a man had been locked in passionate embrace behind those windows and she , Meredith , had glimpsed them . |
| 8 | The man had been trained in the 1950s when the ‘ tactile ’ approach to teaching was favoured . |
| 9 | Meanwhile , Shackel 's unfortunate man had been done to death by his two attackers , and Peck now had a manslaughter case on his hands , a crime he might well have prevented . |
| 10 | He said that one elderly man had been killed on Hollyhurst Road because he was unable to find a safe place to cross owing of the amount of cars parked along the street . |
| 11 | Reports in the previous year that a local man had been killed by the Dutch workforce make it clear that the battles over the digging of the ditches were far from one-sided . |
| 12 | When John confirmed his name , he was asked why he did not attend the curate 's services , to which he replied that the man had been appointed under the king 's law and not under God 's law . |
| 13 | The woman had rubbed herself vigorously with the leaves , and presumably the man had been exposed to some of the plant 's irritant oil remaining on her body after washing . |
| 14 | He was adamant that man had been made in the image of God , not in the image of nature . |
| 15 | The man had been forced to his feet and was being held between two Security men , his head bowed in shame , his hands trembling with fear . |
| 16 | The sibilance of his whispering voice and the recollection that a certain man had been found with his throat cut , turned Dolly rigid in the bed . |
| 17 | She had left London on June 6 , a date that had cropped up twice before , though with no apparent connection with anything else — it was the day after Andrew Stavanger 's last known appearance at the office , and the day on which the body of the still unidentified man had been found by Southwark Bridge . |
| 18 | The man had been found near Southwark Bridge at the turn of the tide : he had grounded at low tide , and it had been assumed that he had been carried down river with the ebb . |
| 19 | The man had been recruited before the start of the Deputy Under Secretary 's reign at Century , recruited and arrested and tried . |
| 20 | The man had been impaled on the rusted spikes of a security gate that had been discarded underneath the tarpaulin . |
| 21 | The translating trooper was there , too , for Biff 's benefit as though temporarily that man had been transformed into the sumnik 's servant . |
| 22 | The only consolation and the reason why Mrs Brodowitz was so well informed was that the man had been spotted by the military police and was now in prison . |
| 23 | A local man had been bullied into guiding them through the treacherous , quaking waste . |
| 24 | The man had been accused of raping a local girl and was in very serious trouble . |
| 25 | The former Royal Artillery man had been accused of stealing three hundred and forty three pounds from the Gulf Families Association which he founded in Gloucester . |
| 26 | The coroner said he understood that one man had been arrested following inquiries and another man was still being sought . |
| 27 | The RUC said later that a third man had been arrested in North Belfast . |
| 28 | In the Rohan Hours , produced for Yolande of Aragon between c.1418–25 and now in the Bibliothèque Nationale , Paris , the shroud is shown as a loose sheet , almost as if the dead man had been lifted from his bed and placed into his coffin ; no attempt has been made to mould the cloth about the body or to position the limbs . |
| 29 | Almost immediately the helicopter started a transfer from the trawler 's deck , but after the first man had been winched aboard the connecting line to the helicopter parted , followed by the lifeboat 's port tow line . |
| 30 | This outstanding man had been seconded from the Royal Welch Fusiliers to serve as Consul at Adana in Turkey , where he behaved with courage and firmness during the Armenian massacres , rescuing several hundred people before he himself was wounded as he rode round the town . |