Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [noun sg] " in BNC.
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| 1 | as if he 'd been cut out of tin . |
| 2 | Personally , he just hoped it was some headcase from the funny farm up the hill who 'd been let out on parole too early with a meat axe . |
| 3 | They 'd been caught up in gunfire at home in Beirut , which left them paralysed . |
| 4 | The Kuwaiti government consistently denied that Palestinians had been singled out for arrest and punishment . |
| 5 | Cranston claimed that his relationship with Keating was essentially no different from that of the other four senators , but that , because he was suffering from cancer and had announced his intention not to seek re-election on the expiry in 1992 of his current term , he had been singled out for sanction as a " scapegoat " . |
| 6 | But when he reached the place where the cart had been , which had brought him twenty miles from the nearest town , it had been stabled out of sight . |
| 7 | The children stared ravenously at her dress as if it had been spun out of sugar . |
| 8 | At Greshornish , their horses , says Boswell , ‘ had been sent around by road to meet us . |
| 9 | The Pa. stood for Pennsylvania , and the machines had been sent over as part of the Marshall Plan to get Europe back on its feet and wearing nylons just like the Americans . |
| 10 | It would have been better if Cuntona had n't equalised or if Bruce had been sent off for clothes-lining that turk on the half-way line . |
| 11 | I found my father talking to some of them ; he had been called on to act as an interpreter . |
| 12 | Russell Reynolds had been called in on occasion , and a smaller firm — seen as a very good specialist — for specific assignments in commodity finance . |
| 13 | He wore a coat and a scarf because the electricity had been cut off at lunchtime . |
| 14 | Lane 15 shows a marker of Dcm enzyme ; this part of the gel had been cut off before fluorography and stained separately with Coomassie blue . |
| 15 | He was shocked to find the puppy 's legs had been tied up with string before it was placed in a bag and dumped . |
| 16 | Most of the Kabye living in Lomé had been rounded up for protection by the army , saying their houses had been ransacked by the Ewes . |
| 17 | By the early 1950s the binder had been rendered out of date by the combine harvester , which cut the crop and separated out the grain in one operation . |
| 18 | Their glances met , and for a moment Sara felt as though she had been swung out into space . |
| 19 | His eyes were red-rimmed and sagging , his nose a mass of pustules , and his teeth had been blacked out with enamel . |
| 20 | Likewise north-facing , and therefore never filled with much light , even in summer , George 's office had been fitted out in style . |
| 21 | Our four weeks at Orange had been made up of marching , singing , being hit and not having enough sleep . |
| 22 | Her sense of its deliberate concealment was overwhelmingly strong-it had been placed out of sight , but in a place where its owner could easily put his hand on it . |
| 23 | In February 1974 , the Conservative Government called an early general election : their incomes policy was in tatters and their attempt to legislate on industrial relations had been beaten back by action on the factory floor and the streets . |
| 24 | In court hearings in Lahore and Karachi in late July , she denied accusations of corruption [ see pp. 37652 ; 37763-64 ; 38194 ] , insisting that the charges had been contrived out of malice by President Ghulam Ishaq Khan . |
| 25 | She was carrying more weight on her face than on her body , her make-up being so thick , so perfect , that her cheeks looked as though they had been carved out of porcelain . |
| 26 | Dudley Clarke had been the only casualty , hit in the ear , which had been sewn back in place by a petty officer as the boat left the beach . |
| 27 | That lavish endowment of talent , which had been blotted up in sport and intense boyish preoccupations , was now called up in all its force and it did not let him down . |
| 28 | A threatened school teachers ' strike was averted in November , but not before a meeting of school students in support of their teachers had been broken up by riot police . |
| 29 | Diplomatic relations with the USA had been broken off after World War II , following Albanian suspicions that attempts were being made to subvert the communist regime of Enver Hoxha , who had taken power in 1944 ; relations with the Soviet Union were severed in 1961 following ideological disputes . |
| 30 | The lid had been battered out of shape and the locks no longer met , but a leather strap held the whole thing together . |