Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [verb] [adv] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | With the ribbon of blacktop offering a new perspective , he realised that the vortex within which they fled was turning away from the mountains . |
| 2 | Besides these photographs were Pedro 's polo helmet , which now had a map of the Malvinas stamped on the front ( which Angel always wore in matches ) , and a jar of earth he 'd dug up from the Islands on the day he 'd been sent home as a prisoner of war . |
| 3 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 4 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 5 | I 'm glad you do n't try to be what you are n't , ’ he said gravely , beckoning the waiter who 'd been leaning wearily against the door-jamb . |
| 6 | I had a feeling they 'd been blocked off by the malais and had n't been able to go by the quickest route they wanted . |
| 7 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 8 | Time was impossible to measure down in Chard — it always is when you 're a child — and I remember one day chatting to Uncle Cyril and feeling that I 'd been living there for an age . |
| 9 | I 'd been muttering unhappily to a couple of friends about how hopelessly disorganized a particular campaign I 'd got involved with seemed to be when a strange man next to us started a similar but louder tirade about how useless Switchboard was , how everyone knew they were ripping off money from their fund raising and what a lousy job they did in his ( extremely small and third-hand ) experience . |
| 10 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 11 | If you 'd been tossed around in the eddies down there I would n't have given much for your chances . ’ |
| 12 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 13 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 14 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 15 | He had fancied being a poet when he was a boy — before he 'd been thrust out into the real world to try to earn a living . |
| 16 | He 'd been sailing close to the wind for years and everything was just about to blow up in his face . ’ |
| 17 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 18 | He had a feeling that they 'd been waiting right from the start of the trip . |
| 19 | as if she 'd been waiting outside for a convenient pause in their conversation , the vaporeuse knocked on the door and opened it . |
| 20 | This made him aware of how much he 'd been missing before in the cold , masculine environment of the academy . |
| 21 | But he should have realised she 'd been carried away by the atmosphere , and the unexpected potency of the aquavit . |
| 22 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 23 | She still did n't know what had happened when she 'd been put through to the room . |
| 24 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 25 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 26 | Erm yes , they er , they felt they 'd been let down by the Railway men , I think , or someone else at the beginning at the Strike , and they were out on a limb but er they 'd got to make the best of it . |
| 27 | She 'd been going on about the outings , never getting away , had n't she ? |
| 28 | Course I di I did n't get to know much else but it was obvious you see , she 'd been going out with a young man , her husband was in the Forces and er she 'd tried to get rid of it . |
| 29 | Vernon told him he 'd been taken home in a chauffeur-driven car . |
| 30 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |