Example sentences of "[adv] [vb past] been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] " in BNC.
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| 1 | More recently , it was impossible to forget how he personally had been let down over the reserves pledged for the first phase at Verdun . |
| 2 | It is possible that this difference of opinion was pre-arranged and intended simply to minimize the extent of the cooperation between Richard and Philip as a preliminary to the new proposal which the King of France now made and which clearly had been worked out between them . |
| 3 | Saw faces that half an hour before had been puffed up with their own infallibility deflated by doubt . |
| 4 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 5 | The Lassavette — Glass Negative Prints of 100 Years Ago had been taken along by Peter Macdonald of Godalming Photographic Club . |
| 6 | Cattle in there had been taken out before our arrival . ’ |
| 7 | Land nearby had been bought up for 300 workers ' houses . |
| 8 | By now in his eighties , Yusuf would never again return to Spain — he too had been worn down by long years of struggle to remove the thorn of El Cid from his side . |
| 9 | He let her go as if he too had been dragged down by past memories . |
| 10 | As the record company had grown , it too had been broken down into smaller units : DinDisc had been a model for two more affiliated labels , 10 and Siren . |