Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] the [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 31 | Paragraph ( a ) has already been examined in the context of the mental element in the offence , and will not be considered further . |
| 32 | Reportedly , the victim 's car had been stopped at the post as it was leaving Lithuania , and an exchange of shots had followed , although reports from Lithuania and Byelorussia offered conflicting versions of events . |
| 33 | They should have been stopped at the block … ’ |
| 34 | To make matters worse any chance of ventilation had been stopped with the use of many pairs of tights or balls of newspaper stuffed into every hole , nook or cranny . |
| 35 | One thing was clear : he had certainly meant to kill him , and had only been stopped by the officer 's determined and intelligent fighting . |
| 36 | The information had been furnished by the French underground , and , as the crews had been told , there was no way of knowing if the information was correct . |
| 37 | Competing with Mr Perv for Norris 's affections is true crime author Jack Lansford ( Tom Berenger ) whose interest has been aroused by the building 's grisly past . |
| 38 | His major contributions to Welsh scholarship , however , were the numerous studies he published of the intricate structure of the four branches of the Mabinogi and of aspects of the Arthurian legend , a field in which his interest had been aroused by the work of Sir John Rhŷs [ q.v . ] . |
| 39 | The newly restored Japanese Emperor opened the line , and thereby scotched the bitter religious opposition that had been aroused against the building of railways . |
| 40 | These expressions have been italicized in the diagram above . |
| 41 | The ruling , the first occasion on which a constitutional amendment had been overturned in the court , marked a defeat for Ershad . |
| 42 | However , this may have been overturned by the House of Lords in Lonrho Ltd . |
| 43 | The Abbess of Barking complained that her wood of Alderfen , belonging to her manor of Tollesbury , had been recalled into the Forest of Essex , ‘ although she says the wood is not in the forest and ought not to be ’ . |
| 44 | On Jan. 14 the US State Department announced that Iraq 's ambassador to the USA , Mohammed Sadiq al-Mashat , had been recalled following the expulsion of a number of Iraqi diplomats on Jan. 12 . |
| 45 | The former Rangers striker has been recalled to the squad to face in-form Chelsea in the Coca-Cola Cup tonight and is set to appear for the first time in two months . |
| 46 | Robin Horner of Belmont has been recalled to the team as second to Willie Watson ( Knock . ) |
| 47 | The Assembly , dissolved on Sept. 28 , had been recalled by the government of President Hugh Desmond Hoyte on Dec. 3 and had passed a bill restoring the seats of opposition members . |
| 48 | It was of course , this unit for which the maintenance crews had been flown to the island by the 10 R.A.A.F. Squadron Sunderland a few days earlier . |
| 49 | Truman had been propelled into the presidency through the sudden death of Franklin Roosevelt on 12 April 1945 . |
| 50 | It was considered that Sendero had been profiting from the rivalry between the Army and police in the region as to who should spearhead the US-backed campaign against drug trafficking . |
| 51 | During the sixteenth century the Portuguese had already been profiting from the gold being produced in West Africa and Japan . |
| 52 | Lately Mr Kaifu has been under pressure to hand out minor cabinet posts to some young stars within the party who had been tainted by the Recruit affair . |
| 53 | The original blood has been blended with the blood of Turks and Slavs and others , but the face in a modern Athens street or a rural corner of the Peloponnese is not a face from Istanbul or Belgrade . |
| 54 | Whether or not the wine has been blended by the solera method or by actual blending , it is made up in lotes and left to rest until the parts have ‘ married ’ . |
| 55 | With the head secured very firmly in the vice I attacked the outer edge of it , where the top section had been joined to the side , with a chisel and hammer . |
| 56 | BILL Wade , the Lib Dem in Bishop Auckland , has been joined on the stump by an out and out Tory his brother Harry . |
| 57 | They had been joined on the site by the police marksmen . |
| 58 | Since its formation these founding companies have been joined in the Quality Scotland Foundation by other like-minded organisations , all keen to promote a quality-conscious attitude not only in their own businesses but throughout Scottish life . |
| 59 | For the shoot , Colin , C and Jhelisa have been joined by the rest of the touring band , keyboard player Robert Graham and drummer Gavin Knight . |
| 60 | They have now been joined by the Double Knit gauge ( SK860 ) and probably , by the time you read this , by the fine gauge ( SK830 ) . |