Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 2 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | If you 'd been tossed around in the eddies down there I would n't have given much for your chances . ’ |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 10 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 11 | She still did n't know what had happened when she 'd been put through to the room . |
| 12 | If we 'd been put back with an American maybe it meant that at least one of us could expect to be released . |
| 13 | Erm I think they thought they 'd been let down at the end of it . |
| 14 | 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 . |
| 15 | William who was a widower told his son he could believe he 'd been taken in by the conmen . |
| 16 | They make the poor girls look as though they had n't been properly unpacked , as though they 'd been taken out of the box and someone had left half their wrappings on . ’ |
| 17 | She 'd thought about going back to her room for a while , maybe find out from Josie what she 'd been caught up in the night before , but it would take her more than half an hour to walk . |
| 18 | Davide threw himself on it to stop her pulling it off altogether with the bowl of fruit and the jug of water and glasses with it ; so they grappled , and in the contact something gave way , melted within them both and they clung together , aching in their heads and their bones as if they 'd been caught out on the mountains in the winter and been chilled to the marrow . |
| 19 | Whatever evidence the IAAF officials discovered in the laboratory , one only needed to look at recent pictures of Johnson , in which he resembled an inflated balloon , to guess that his improved times showed he 'd been sucked back into the drug culture . |
| 20 | The relief of escaping from his company was so intense that she felt as if she 'd been wired up to an electric charge for the last few hours and someone had finally taken pity on her and turned off the power . |
| 21 | Glancing at his watch , Donaldson saw that it was after five ; seven hours since he 'd been picked up at the courtroom , during which time he 'd skipped lunch and spent his afternoon handing tidbits to a bright primate . |
| 22 | The trap in Sam 's boathouse kept intruding and so did Angela Brickell ; the cold threat of khaki water that could rush into aching lungs to bring oblivion and the earthy girl who 'd been claimed back by the earth , eaten clean by earth creatures , become earth-digested dust . |
| 23 | It was only thirty-six hours since she 'd been washed up on the island like a piece of flotsam , she reminded herself ; early days to start bewailing her fate . |
| 24 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 25 | After he 'd been coaxed out of the cart in the yard , three serving women had carried him into the house . |
| 26 | Maybe he 'd been scared off by the snow and taken Caspar home . |
| 27 | If he 'd been thrown out of a window . ’ |
| 28 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 29 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 30 | He 'd been brought up on a farm and had a way with horses , and his first job when he left school was working for a brewery breaking in the big black cobs they brought over wild from Ireland and put to use as cart-horses dragging the great heavy drays full of ale . |