Example sentences of "been [verb] a [noun] in " in BNC.
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| 1 | Gould had only a couple of weeks to spare here ( he had been delayed a week in Maitland on the lower reaches of the Hunter while he waited to meet up with Stephen Coxen ) , having promised Eliza to forsake his desire to continue collecting , and to return in time for the delivery of their child . |
| 2 | He 'd been given a position in prison administration in Paris , and Sylvia thought he might be of help to her in finding Madeleine and Jeanne . |
| 3 | I 'm a bit less pissed off about selling Batty now since a ) we did n't loose on Saturday ; b ) Rocky played well ( I bet he 's been given a run in the 1st team and a confidence boost with it ) ; c ) I heard Batty saying things like ‘ he did n't have to sell the club ( rovers ) to me ’ , with no hint of remorse at leaving Leeds . |
| 4 | WHEELCHAIR tennis has been given a boost in the province in the wake of a successful clinic which was staged at the CIYMS club in Belfast . |
| 5 | Each key contrastive feature of grammar or phonology has been given a number in brackets ( [ F 1 ] , [ G 1 ] , etc. ) and these will be used elsewhere in the book when reference is made to these specific features of the language varieties in contact . |
| 6 | Mr Bonfield also disclosed that , following initial hostility , ICL had been given a role in the European Community 's advanced communications programme after reassuring critics that the technology flow with Fujitsu would be two-way . |
| 7 | Nevertheless , despite the necessity to protect children from being misled by the stories of ‘ heaven ’ and miracles , it should be made quite clear to them that most of the stories of good works attributed to the people involved are most likely to be true , and as these people are believed to have done much more good than most , they have been given a place in the windows of the churches and in paintings and elsewhere . |
| 8 | I had been given a week in Sydney before sailing for New Zealand . |
| 9 | I 've been keeping a watch in case we had visitors . ’ |
| 10 | A good example of how the foregoing Swiss rules operate was offered by the Goldberg case ( held in Indiana in 1989 and involving Byzantine mosaics stolen from a church in Cyprus and purchased by an American dealer in Switzerland ) , where the American courts concluded that the dealer Goldberg would have been deemed a purchaser in bad faith under Swiss law if it had been applied . |
| 11 | Lamy , who has been seeking a drive in Formula One for this year 's Portuguese Grand Prix at Estroil next month , tested for Lotus at Silverstone last week . |
| 12 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 13 | The organisers have been granted a licence in the face of strong local objections . |
| 14 | Martyn Moxon , who has been granted a benefit in 1993 by Yorkshire , recently received the Society 's ‘ Cricketer of the Year ’ Award for 1991 . |
| 15 | John Thaw , star of Central Television 's Inspector Morse has been made a CBE in the new years honours list . |
| 16 | New Zealand 's Foreign Affairs Minister , Don McKinnon , said that he was " appalled and disgusted " to learn that the agent had been made a knight in the National Order of Merit . |
| 17 | Now I suppose that kind of model of what goes on in families has been disrupted a bit in the last few years because increasingly people have drawn attention to the way in which um often the person doing the abuse is the most powerful person within that family situation . |
| 18 | ‘ Then she told me she 'd been offered a part in Jane Eyre at Warrington rep and did I think she ought to accept . |
| 19 | Some have worked at Bentley pianos for forty years , but they have n't been offered a penny in redundancy pay . |
| 20 | I have since been offered a write-up in one of the car hi-fi magazines about the work on my car and others we have worked on . |
| 21 | FORMER All Black captain DAVID KIRK , who narrowly missed a seat in the New Zealand Parliament representing the constituency of the former Prime Minister , Sir Robert Muldoon , has been offered a job in the office of the New Prime Minister in Wellington . |
| 22 | She 's been offered a job in London . ’ |
| 23 | I 've been offered a job in general practice . |
| 24 | ‘ She 'd been offered a job in America , nanny to a widower with two small children . |
| 25 | Following the burglary , she has been offered a place in a warden controlled block in Milton Keynes . |
| 26 | The youngster has been offered a place in both the Liverpool and Everton schools of excellence . |
| 27 | Miss Kyte considered herself fortunate to have finally been offered a post in a better class of household , for Sir John Merchiston 's widow sounded a much more promising prospect than Mrs Mugglesby , to whom she had last been in service . |
| 28 | The policeman had been investigating a burglary in which a Midland cash card , a portable CD player , a Hitachi portable television set , a silver bracelet , an 18-carat gold chain and St Christopher and five silver necklaces were stolen . |
| 29 | I 've been called a dragon in my time , Shelley , but in my case I 've knowingly been an old crosspatch sometimes . ’ |
| 30 | The house itself had one big comfortable room taking up the front with a glassed-in porch that caught the sun , and would have been called a conservatory in a grander house . |