Example sentences of "[pron] [vb past] been [vb pp] [adv] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Time to slow down — I 'd been booked here a couple of years earlier . |
| 2 | But after the Salzburg concert I had been offered only a kind of ‘ trial ’ , just one performance of someone else 's production . |
| 3 | These were organic transplants which had been rejected yet the patient lived . |
| 4 | Even I knew about the CS , which had been set up the year before in the wake of a couple of real humdinger scandals in the Square Mile . |
| 5 | At the head of the parade was a blue banner bearing the words ‘ Civil Rights March ’ , which had been carried on the Coalisland — Dungannon march . |
| 6 | The bad news was that for some reason our shore watchers had missed her actual departure and could only guess that she had been gone about an hour . |
| 7 | She had been brought up a good Church of England girl — she knew the drill . |
| 8 | She had been brought up a Unitarian , but about the time of her brother 's death she decided to become a Roman Catholic . |
| 9 | Those who had accepted the old beliefs about women — her slower sexual arousal , natural chastity and requirement for serious emotional involvement — were bound to ask themselves whether they had been led up the garden path . |
| 10 | The man escaped from Coney Hill mental hospital in Gloucester , where he 'd been sent exactly a year ago after being convicted of the assault of a three year old girl in the city . |
| 11 | The flush pipes from high-level cisterns need less room than the low-level types , and the extension pipe at the back of the loo told me it had been moved forward a few inches . |
| 12 | It had been announced only a month ago that she was expecting her first child and would probably be leaving after the spring term . |
| 13 | By the time it had been persuaded onwards the victoria was out of sight . |
| 14 | Perhaps the producer thought the gentleman had had enough media exposure for a while , as I was given to understand that he had been granted quite a bit of air time one way and another in the recent past . |
| 15 | The grin left his face as he mentioned that he had been informed about an hour ago that his brother-in-law , who was a member of No. 4 Commando , had been killed during a German counter attack on the Commando positions . |
| 16 | Since nothing had been taken away the duty in such a case was to reach an honest conclusion without bias and not in pursuance of a capricious policy . |