Example sentences of "been [verb] by [pos pn] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Just before the accident , he had snatched his favourite toy from his brother and had been stopped by his mother from hitting him over the head . |
| 2 | Curiosity may have been aroused by their performances but , according to Watman , ‘ they enjoyed incredible popularity at the time and there was never any suggestion of race as a factor ’ ( personal communication , 1981 ) . |
| 3 | Thus , on Jan. 30 parliament co-opted 120 new members to replace CPCz members who had resigned or who had been recalled by their constituencies . |
| 4 | There were 180,000 guestworkers in East Germany including 40,000 Vietnamese as well as Mozambicans and Cubans ; 40,000 North Koreans had been recalled by their government when demonstrations threatened the old regime . |
| 5 | Among Sikhs , for example , many of the first male immigrants arrived in the 1950s , by the 60s they had been joined by their wives and children and by the 70s many of them had brought their elderly parents . |
| 6 | She had been joined by her two travelling companions . |
| 7 | For much of time he been joined by his wife Joanne , who has worked tirelessly with the country 's zoo to help care for captive chimpanzees and a small collection of other African animals . |
| 8 | The Scottish No1 , Russell Devine , has been joined by his Inverness team-mate , Dave Allan , and both have just set new personal bests . |
| 9 | He should have been in bed , but it was breathlessly hot , and Richard , who was at home , had been irritated by his whining . |
| 10 | The man who produced the record ’ Telstar ’ by the Tornadoes in the sixties , has been honoured by his home town . |
| 11 | He told us that he had been persecuted by his family , psychiatrists and a public mental hospital ; that he was in imminent danger of being detained against his will in hospital in Japan ; that escaping from Japan was the only way to secure his freedom ; and that he wanted shelter and legal assistance under international refugee law . |
| 12 | A native Russian of genius , L. Tolstoy , had been blinded by his feelings in the famine of 1891–2 when he made mildly inaccurate statements about the Tsarist relief administration . |
| 13 | For the purposes of this book , just two assertions will have to content us : first , some works have been intended by their makers to be seen as art ; second , there is a consensus today that other works are to be described as art . |
| 14 | My wife telephoned to give me the news which had been heard by our daughter listening to the radio . |
| 15 | There was a single filing cabinet , but in all other respects the room could have been inhabited by his father , the colonial Bishop whose portrait hung over the marble mantelshelf . |
| 16 | And I mean er er you could argue that you know , because he 's er erm you know targeting the young and people who are at school in particular , the fact that , you know , if he 's successful in targeting those , then by nineteen forty nine those school children will be sort of will be the , the peasants , will be farmers and therefore will be more willing , you know , having been indoctrinated by his thoughts er or , or by the communist way of thinking , then erm for the revolution . |
| 17 | Collagen has long been known for its hydrating power and as a source of nutrients for the skin , but its penetration into the epidermis has always been limited by its high molecular weight . |
| 18 | Levels of earnings might well have been limited by their own work-psychology , as were those of lead miners in Derbyshire and the Mendip Hills , where the labour force consisted almost entirely of smallholders and cottagers . |
| 19 | I have long been fascinated by his work . |
| 20 | FOR the past five years , Thailand has been intoxicated by its success . |
| 21 | The spontaneity of the dancers ebbed away and they seemed almost shamefaced that their behaviour had been witnessed by their employers . |
| 22 | It is well known that parents tend to treat their children as they themselves have been treated by their own parents . |
| 23 | In a sense responding to our questions , naturally , depending on how they 've been treated by their employer can we have your comments about the sort of legal framework you think the pension fund should be in and then Jeremy will take over . |
| 24 | It prompted Diana to speak to a lawyer and write to her father-in-law spelling out the way she felt she had been treated by her husband , the Royal Family and their courtiers . |
| 25 | Under normal circumstances , Lucien would have been reared by his uncle , Enkhari , who was not a blood relative but the lover of his father . |
| 26 | When it had been authenticated by its silver hallmarks , Sir Charles bought it and for the rest of his life regarded it as an important heirloom . |
| 27 | The tropical forest policies of the World Bank have been criticized by its own researchers . |
| 28 | This regressive phenomenon has also been highlighted by Her Majesty 's Chief Inspector of Prisons in a report on Feltham Youth Custody Centre . |
| 29 | The transformation of the Japanese economy over the past 30 years has been highlighted by its stunning record of growth in output , productivity and exports . |
| 30 | Those consequences have been highlighted by my hon. Friend with specific examples from industries within his constituency . |