Example sentences of "'d [been] [verb] by the [adj] " in BNC.

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1 ‘ I think he 'd been fascinated by the wooden leg banging on the floor .
2 They 'd been denigrated by the clinical psycho anal analysts who have followed after Freud , and used Freudian therapy , because they 're non-therapeutic .
3 I 'd been trained by the P-PRD Division .
4 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 .
5 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 !
6 He 'd gone and been impressed with what he 'd been told by the visiting medium , though he was n't convinced .
7 Although she 'd been enchanted by the boisterous reunions , her attention was immediately arrested by the man 's striking colouring .
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