Example sentences of "been [verb] [prep] one [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The two men , both facing terrorist charges , escaped after producing a gun , which had been hidden in one of their shoes , as they were being escorted back to the prison 's secure unit from attending mass in the chapel . |
| 2 | " He 's been posted to one of those bloody awful oil-rigs in the North Sea , and he wo n't be back till Christmas . |
| 3 | The call had been traced to one of a bank of three public booths in Saffron Walden , a market-town in western Essex , just off the M11 motorway from London to Cambridge . |
| 4 | She has previously been sacked from one of her schools because she slept with her pupils . |
| 5 | A telephone call reported a device had been placed on one of the SVR train-sets . |
| 6 | The drama of the succession , whether it should go to Curzon or to Baldwin , has always been treated as one of the great hairs-breadth decisions of British constitutional history . |
| 7 | The acquirer may not have the time or be willing to make the inspections and will not want to accept the risk that some information may have been given to one of its employees or advisers who was unable at the time to appreciate its significance in relation to the transaction , or indeed may have been forgotten . |
| 8 | A graphic description of this theme has been given by one of the foremost experts on the Maya , J. E. S. Thompson : |
| 9 | When FDA clearance comes through the final product in a portfolio of basic food ingredients will be in place — promising the transformation of what has long been regarded as one of Britain 's most boring businesses into a world beater . |
| 10 | The residents of Unity Flats are shrugging off the stigma of living in what has long been regarded as one of the city 's most undesirable areas . |
| 11 | Shevardnadze ( appointed in 1985 — see p. 33738 ) had been regarded as one of Gorbachev 's closest allies and personal friends in the leadership . |
| 12 | On 29 May anti-aircraft gunners submitted claims for a Ju88 probably destroyed , but it seems likely that they had in fact been firing at one of the Italian Fiats . |
| 13 | Then , in an aside that could have been uttered by one of her own vampires , she adds , ‘ If I fail I will destroy myself . ’ |
| 14 | He explained that the young puffin had been found wandering in the village with a damaged wing , probably having been mauled by one of the many cats in the neighbourhood ( most of whom , incidentally , have six toes on each foot ) and he said that he would look after Eyvør for some weeks until it was well enough to be released . |
| 15 | The plot boundaries defining the crofts on which these houses stood also changed , although the early impression of great change and lack of order has now been revised to one of combination and division of consistent units . |
| 16 | The brew has been listed as one of the UK 's top 100 by a multimillion circulation national magazine . |
| 17 | Once a patient is deemed incapable , having been assigned to one of these categories , his powers of self-determination are taken from him . |
| 18 | Jones v Sherwood was about the sale of a business and should have been reported in one of the principal general series . |
| 19 | ‘ I thought I had been booked in one of the earlier matches at Windsor Park but I was n't certain , ’ said the Queen 's Park Rangers centre back . |
| 20 | It did , however , come to light some seven years later that a Dr Bayley , a professor at Oxford , had been approached by one of Dudley 's servants shortly before Amy 's death . |
| 21 | He brings a large , but incomplete , map of the village and surrounding area , saying that he 's been approached by one of the railway companies who are interested in building a railway line to Seatown , and that they have asked him to have the map updated . |
| 22 | I picked up a programme , which had been designed by one of the committee members , Sue Brown ; it was a work of art . |
| 23 | In its time it has been claimed as one of the best dual-purpose breeds in the world ; no doubt the Shorthorn contributed to its early maturity and improved the carcass quality of what was once a rather coarse-boned large beef bullock , while the Jersey presumably contributed to its relatively high butterfat ( a Normande cow , many years ago , held the world butterfat record ) . |
| 24 | The human had been looking at one of those big sheets of paper … |
| 25 | As I was leaving the house Pat shouted after me , ‘ Piper , your friend Taff who shares the trench with you in the orchard has been transferred to one of the Commando units around the village . |
| 26 | Reserve Winners Dog The dog who came second in the Winners Dog 's original class competes with the dogs remaining in the ring , ( unless he has already been defeated by one of them ) , for Reserve Winners . |
| 27 | It had been made at one of those long , heart-searching breakfast conversations over pancakes and imported Vermont maple syrup . |
| 28 | She 'd been living with one of his men , a guy who knew a lot about his affairs , and Connie could n't help knowing plenty of things that Bonanza would not want advertised on the radio . ’ |
| 29 | The case in question had been argued as one of relevance of evidence . |
| 30 | For managers at the top of the hierarchy the capacity to conceptualize has been seen as one of the predictors of managerial success . |