Example sentences of "'d been [verb] by [art] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , three nights later , she 'd been visited by an erotic dream that regularly haunted her . |
| 2 | ‘ I think he 'd been fascinated by the wooden leg banging on the floor . |
| 3 | She 'd been killed by an electric shock . |
| 4 | They 'd been denigrated by the clinical psycho anal analysts who have followed after Freud , and used Freudian therapy , because they 're non-therapeutic . |
| 5 | Hugh was not an absolutely brilliant solicitor but he knew when he 'd been out-manoeuvred by a ruthless opponent . |
| 6 | I 'd been trained by the P-PRD Division . |
| 7 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 8 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 9 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 10 | He 'd gone and been impressed with what he 'd been told by the visiting medium , though he was n't convinced . |
| 11 | Although she 'd been enchanted by the boisterous reunions , her attention was immediately arrested by the man 's striking colouring . |
| 12 | He sprang up at once and made for the door as if he 'd been propositioned by a dirty old man in a public convenience . |