Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [prep] a [noun sg] " in BNC.

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1 An unfortunate error also resulted in seventeen questionnaires with the question deleted being issued on a week day .
2 The transition probabilities used were based on a text containing 10,000 letters , with zero probabilities converted to a small value to enable computation .
3 The harmonic sequence I mentioned is used as a rift .
4 The salvation it proposed was based on a reduction in the amount of first-class cricket to a 16-match one-day competition without over limitation , a reduction in county staffs and the involvement and use of part time cricketers .
5 For a claim to be recoverable the Policyholder must satisfy us that on the balance of probabilities the loss or damage sustained was caused by a peril insured against .
6 ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place .
7 But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that .
8 Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival .
9 ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’
10 He laughed , and then added that he 'd been drunk as a cork himself actually , the night before .
11 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 .
12 Another , who 'd been injured in a brawl during exercise , sported fifty-eight stitches from the point of his chin to the corner of his left eye .
13 They 'd been stored in a hangar which was totally destroyed .
14 But then , when you said they 'd been gone for a couple of years … ’
15 Did I tell you that we 'd been adopted by a kitten ?
16 Three years ago Anna McGurk was murdered by a man who 'd been bailed on a rape charge .
17 ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus .
18 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 .
19 She 'd been reserved in a way which suggested that she might be strong-willed but was making an effort to hide it or keep it in check .
20 Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea .
21 The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations .
22 If she 'd been stopped in a car with this level of alcohol in her , she would have lost her licence for a year at least and got a hefty fine .
23 We 'd been struck by a lightning bolt .
24 It 's thought he 'd been swept off a mountain in high winds .
25 Lucille Walker had n't brought me clear over to Hollywood just to tell me I 'd been played for a sucker .
26 Last week the Government warned that around 300 women who 'd been injected with a hormone called gonadotrophin , extracted from the pituitary glands of human corpses , could be at risk .
27 I popped in to see what the form was , and to find out if I 'd been fired as a house-sitter .
28 Sobbing with pain and rage , he was carted off to hospital by an ashen Claudia and the family doctor , who 'd been presented with a horse every time he delivered a Mendoza baby .
29 A team-mate claimed : ‘ He looked like he 'd been hit with a meat cleaver . ’
30 He fell into the chair as though he 'd been hit with a medicine ball and said very little while Malc 's parents discussed what we should do .
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