Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [adv prt] and the " in BNC.
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| 1 | What had occurred was precisely the sort of ‘ semi-hysterical outburst of militancy ’ which McCann had criticised , and far from exposing and isolating the Nationalists , an informal united front had been struck up and the politicians were being allowed to clamber onto the DHAC 's bandwagon . |
| 2 | The Court had no knowledge of the case stated that had been struck out and the Crown 's case stated had duly proceeded . |
| 3 | The buttons had been ripped off and the pockets torn open , but it kept me warm . |
| 4 | Mr Rampton said the text showed that ‘ subterfuge ’ had been crossed out and the word ‘ silence ’ substituted . |
| 5 | The front door and the vestibule door had been blown off and the heavy mahogany coat stand lay across the foot of the stairs . |
| 6 | All pretence that the paper ever belonged to MacQuillan personally had been given up and the title transferred to a newly formed company within the MacQuillan empire . |
| 7 | His skull had been kicked in and the dark blood seeped out , mingling with the grey sludge of his brains . |
| 8 | push the bed , the bed had been pushed up and the stuff had tumbled and I just moved it all away |
| 9 | It is true that in the case of Buckinghamshire County Council v Moran Slade LJ attached considerable significance to the fact that the land there in question had been fenced off and the gate locked , but the position it seems to me is quite different in a metropolitan context such as one finds in Brighton . |
| 10 | ‘ If the business had been shut down and the premises sold , what would have happened to you ? ’ |
| 11 | ‘ The kitchen drawer had been pulled out and the coal bucket had been overturned . |
| 12 | The safety surface at the play area near his home in Kendal Drive , Great Sutton , had been torn up and the debris dumped around the climbing frame . |
| 13 | The next day County issued a press release announcing that 48.9% of the shares had been taken up and the rest sold on the market . |
| 14 | The sleepers had been taken up and the flat , stony top of the ridge was so overgrown with blackberries and wild rose and hazelnut bushes that it was like pushing through a forgotten forest in a fairy tale . |
| 15 | The original loft had been taken down and the balustrade removed to the west end to form a gallery . |
| 16 | ‘ But it also meant a lot of brances had been washed down and the river has a lot of snags anyway . |
| 17 | Soon the stern anchor had been paid out and the Ariadne was back to where she had started , the buoy nudging the midships port side . |
| 18 | And er this divided this street into two but at probably a number of years before , it had been tunnelled in and the top part of the street was called Street and there , there was a slight hill run down to . |
| 19 | However , the fail out alarm had been knocked out and the intercom was working badly . |
| 20 | Huge tents , open-fronted , had been put up and the Empress came in state with all her ladies , veiled to the eyes , and took her place on the throne . |
| 21 | Later on we found out the perimeter fence had been burnt down and the festival is banned here next year . |