Example sentences of "[pron] [verb] been [verb] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | Each of them has been transformed into a breathtaking beauty ! |
| 2 | Students often complain that nothing has been learned from a particular allocation . |
| 3 | By then large drops were falling all around me , another landing on my wig and one splashing on my shoulder , making me jump as if I 'd been prodded with a therm-knife . |
| 4 | I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter . |
| 5 | I 'd been thinking for a long time that I 'd welcome the chance to talk with a psychiatrist , although not about captivity — I felt I 'd worked my way through that enough — but about my past and how I came to be the person I was when I was taken hostage . |
| 6 | She 'd sided with my parents a couple of years before when I 'd been thinking of a career as an artist , and they were opposed to that … |
| 7 | Chris had insisted that if he was going to go out there , then so was I. I 'd been searching for a way out all night , but nothing convincing came to mind . |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd been looking for a fairly young product which had a range of merchandise to allow a shop to stand on its own two feet . |
| 9 | You 'd met my father and mother , you knew I 'd been raised in a very repressed , almost Victorian household . |
| 10 | But now I 've been drug-free for over a year erm but I 'd been trying for a few year before that and had nay managed to succeed . |
| 11 | No , not just one day , as I said , I 'd been trying for a few |
| 12 | Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker . |
| 13 | ‘ You sound as if I 'd been gone for a few hours and forgot to leave you a note . ’ |
| 14 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 15 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 16 | I 'd been working in a factory , but I had to give that up because I could n't afford a nursery . |
| 17 | And that was the only part I did n't care for , because if I 'd been arriving at a lot of conclusions that were wrong , then I could be wrong about this too . |
| 18 | He settled down with a dance student called Jane , then ‘ one day I was sitting with her in a train station and I realised I 'd been staring at a bloke for about ten minutes ’ . |
| 19 | My ‘ heavenly brother ’ was not a Sasse boy , but from the primary school in nearby Mutengene mission where I had been staying for a few days . |
| 20 | Soon after that , I was fortunate enough to obtain a research studentship at U.C.L. which paid me a small salary of 750 per annum — this was slightly less than what I had been earning as a teacher , but it enabled me to return full-time to research at U.C.L. The money for the studentship had been provided by a television network , ATN . |
| 21 | About five weeks ago , I had been invited to a presentation by Garth Enterprises , who were unveiling their plans for a golf course and leisure complex which would also include a hotel and the provision of some expensive houses alongside each fairway . |
| 22 | I had been invited to a banquet by some mad Russian prince . |
| 23 | It was only on re-reading Szasz that I realised I had been touched on a sensitive spot — the struggle for individual identity — and that that spot was central to the problem of anorexia nervosa . |
| 24 | I had been drinking in a bar with the sub-editor , who had become a friend . |
| 25 | I had been asked for a full text of the sermon , to be printed in the society minutes and had gone to some trouble to prepare for the occasion . |
| 26 | I had been listening to a lot of songs in very different styles , quite consciously , to try to get a little more inspiration for when we went into the studio . |
| 27 | It felt as if I had been living in a room with closed curtains , and all of a sudden its windows had been thrown open and the sun had come bursting in . |
| 28 | I had been fed on a diet of Enid Blyton and her boarding school series , so I was eager — even excited — to be joining one when I came over to take my ‘ A ’ levels in the late sixties : I was not at all prepared for the harsh realities of English middle-class racism . |
| 29 | But back in Cuzco I had to fight to recall the strength I had found ; force myself to remember I had been lost in a sixty-million-year-old forest but had found the still centre . |
| 30 | What I experienced as I fell on my knees was a metaphor — I saw the technological society into which I had been born as a Frankenstein body from which the spirit was missing . |