Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv prt] [prep] a " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 3 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 4 | We thought he 'd been knocked over by a hit and run driver . ’ |
| 5 | If he 'd been thrown out of a window . ’ |
| 6 | I mean , nobody would ever believe you 'd been brought up as a gardener 's boy ! |
| 7 | He 'd been brought up on a steady diet of blood , sweat and tears and Douglas Bader . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Like the ‘ Mef if they 'd been brought up in a Yorkshire pit village instead of some jessified ‘ forest ’ , but with scurrilous standing in for the keyboards , ‘ V ’ are an untutored Stooges. that 's the Three Stooges , mind . |
| 10 | but Bob and I did , I could , I could remember the day we moved in to a hundred and eleven er we 'd never , never been upstairs in a house before you see we 'd been brought up in a bungalow and we 'd never ever been upstairs and the thoughts of going upstairs to bed , you know , was fantastic |
| 11 | Rona was intensely practical in matters of charity , but then she 'd been brought up in a manse and was reading social studies . |
| 12 | A low-loading trailer had been fixed up as a platform for the clergy who led the service and the singing . |
| 13 | In patient 10 , who had been operated on for a bleeding ulcer seven years previously , a gastric lymphoma was diagnosed on the basis of biopsy specimens . |
| 14 | Aurangzeb had been struck down with a fever , and it was believed that he was beyond recovery . |
| 15 | Even its provenance had been established : a whole heap of such material — mostly in longer pieces — had been ripped out of a nearby house and lay , awaiting removal . |
| 16 | She blinked and looked demurely down at the grey and red carpet which squelched across the floor like a rabbit that had been run over by a lorry . |
| 17 | I gave myself a brisk tub down with a towel — when I saw it in daylight it looked as though it had been run over by a lorry on a muddy building site — and changed every stitch of clothing . |
| 18 | Here was a most lovely situation , a sandspit which had been built up into a peninsula . |
| 19 | I caught the next one and as we arrived at Geneva we were told the flight before — the one I should have been on — had been blown up by a terrorist bomb . |
| 20 | He had been blown up by a landmine in the '73 war and he was held together , he told us , with metal pins . |
| 21 | The spines were also slightly changed in shape ; it was as if the head of each had been blown up like a little balloon — just what biophysical theory would predict would need to happen if the electrical connections between the pre-and postsynaptic sides were being strengthened when the chick pecked the bitter bead ; and exactly the sort of change which might be predicted as a consequence of increased glycoprotein synthesis . |
| 22 | I woke stiff and cold , feeling as though I had been scrunched up like a paper bag . |
| 23 | She had changed into some clothes brought for her by a clerk who had been sent out with a handful of roubles to a nearby shop . |
| 24 | This was why , for the greater part of her education , she had been sent off to a small private boarding-school , where Harriet liked to feel that the company of contemporaries compensated for all that was lacking in her home environment . |
| 25 | A little boy had been sent off to a birthday party all dressed up in his best clothes and clutching a present for his school friend . |
| 26 | Earlier , with just seconds remaining of normal time , Mark Hughes had been sent off for a second bookable offence and his team mates then produced a magnificent display of courageous football to keep themselves in this tie . |
| 27 | They had been called out to a little boy who had been playing behind the family car when his father had reversed it out of the garage . |
| 28 | On April 8 it was reported that ANC peace talks with Inkatha , scheduled for the previous weekend , had been called off as a result of the ANC 's May 9 ultimatum to de Klerk . |
| 29 | In his opinion there was no doubt that Miss Ward 's head had been cut off with a single blow from a sharp instrument . |
| 30 | The words had been cut out of a newspaper . |