Example sentences of "be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 31 | The star of the festival is Hans Rey … a stunt rider who can do anything and everything with a mountain bike … he 's been flown in for the classic … |
| 32 | Daffodil Quentin 's runner , Pampering , had been flown in with five others owned by people on the train , all of whom were strolling around with rosettes and almost permanently smiling faces . |
| 33 | With al-Kassar 's blessing , he met the Magharians in Bern and Zurich to set up accounts for his family , each meeting taped and monitored by Coleman 's assistant Syrian George , who had been flown in from Cyprus for this purpose . |
| 34 | French military reinforcements , 150 troops , had been flown in from the Central African Republic to evacuate foreign nationals in Kigali . |
| 35 | Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia . |
| 36 | Scientists stress they 've used a harmless form of plutonium , which has been flown in from Russia . |
| 37 | THE body of a 53-year-old French Catholic priest who was murdered in Brazil on Christmas Eve has been flown back to France , amid a row between the church and police over the investigation of his death . |
| 38 | The bodies of eight of the nine airmen killed when their Hercules crashed last week have been flown back to RAF Lyneham . |
| 39 | But you talk with a group of youngsters , one of whose friends has just been flown back from a border patrol paralysed for life ; or to a big warm-hearted farmer who tells you , as he jokes with his grandchildren , how he sleeps with his rifle beside his bed and watches every road for landmines — and you see the other side of the coin . |
| 40 | Yugoslav Macedonians had also been flown back from Athens under a new regulation demanding that they should possess US$1,000 on entry to Greece . |
| 41 | In the meantime , F/O Kohn had been flown back by ATA ‘ taxi ’ for another aircraft . |
| 42 | Since Saddam Hussein marched into Kuwait , more that nine hundred Briton , most of the women , have either escaped or been flown out of the Gulf . |
| 43 | Of the eastern deputies who pipe up in parliament , some ( like the eloquent former communist Gregor Gysi ) are heard out with wrath , most only with amused disdain . |
| 44 | These charges , and any interest payable on an overdraft , are calculated up to the first Friday in March , June , September and December , and deducted from your account 14 days later . |
| 45 | By 8am they have been joined by over 50 more , and at least 80 vehicles . |
| 46 | Her broken optic shifted painfully , and she realized she had been seeing out of her empty left eyesocket . |
| 47 | ‘ It would have been much better if those girls had been tucked up at home in bed , ’ said prosecuting counsel in the Brixton rape trial … . |
| 48 | The night-time , the time after she had been tucked up in bed , that was the proper time for Fenna , for flying and dreams . |
| 49 | Firstly , the masses are dismissed out of hand : |
| 50 | Things have been patched up between us by Lord Coleworthy , who likes me and thinks I do a good job . |
| 51 | The month-old ‘ final offensive ’ has been most successful this year because a split that erupted last August among rebel ranks has not yet been patched up in the face of Khartoum 's assaults . |
| 52 | Since the majority of Umbrian towns are placed up on a slope or are like a crown on top of a hill , there are invariably magnificent panoramas . |
| 53 | Twenty minutes later the guest speaker , Alex Campbell ( Newcastle upon Tyne ) arrived ( his train had been delayed by over two hours ) and the audience was entertained with a lecture/demonstration on Instant fire . |
| 54 | Hence the suggestion in [ 30 ] , but not in [ 23 ] , that the speaker feels that the disappearance of his childhood has no explanation , that he has been tricked out of his childhood . |
| 55 | A 93 year old woman has been tricked out of her life savings and pension book . |
| 56 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . |
| 57 | We are spat out of fevered loins , or punctured rubber , or drunken grapplings in creaking beds . ’ |
| 58 | He claims that Stanford has been leant on by the Chinese government and by American academics , who were scared that the door to China would be closed unless he was punished . |
| 59 | Then the neighbours and family who are relied on to share some daily task become more evidently part of the social system , or family system of that elderly person . |
| 60 | Two passages are relied on to support that view from judgments of Lord Donaldson of Lymington M.R. in recent cases . |