Example sentences of "[vb past] [pers pn] had been [verb] to " in BNC.
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| 1 | I found he had been reduced to painting pictures of a Slimfast-addicted woman wearing fishing waders . |
| 2 | ‘ I imagined you had been ordered to bed for three full days . ’ |
| 3 | A Hungarian source told the Guardian the pastor 's family believed he had been taken to a village in north-eastern Transylvania , near the Hungarian border . |
| 4 | On every side table were empty beer bottles sitting sadly in rings of beer ; two empty glasses decorated the mantelpiece , and the piece of petrified driftwood which usually graced it had been shoved to the back , to make way for some empty plates which looked as if they had held meat and cheese . |
| 5 | When he did not return for quite a while , she guessed they had been talking to each other about her . |
| 6 | Tony Nelson , defending , told Wirral magistrates David Roger Powney panicked when he heard she had been rushed to hospital . |
| 7 | Her family heard she had been taken to the Regional Command Military camp in Legaspi City . |
| 8 | My these they were , my recollection may be wrong , I thought it had been put to the yesterday and was that it was shouted a number of times but , you were there , it was only shouted once . |
| 9 | The eight-year-old , who gave evidence by closed-circuit television , said she had been tied to a bed by the men , who wore masks and ‘ did bad things ’ to her after putting Sellotape over her mouth . |
| 10 | Margo Hawes , of Horsforth , said she had been coming to the ballet for years . |
| 11 | Village Group director Paul Hunter said he had been forced to ‘ rest ’ drivers until his firm Liverpool 's largest coach independent was paid . |
| 12 | They said he had been taken to a nearby farmhouse where he was being given shelter for the time being , and that his name was Eric . |