Example sentences of "we have been [vb pp] by a " in BNC.
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| 1 | We 'd been struck by a lightning bolt . |
| 2 | Did I tell you that we 'd been adopted by a kitten ? |
| 3 | We had been warned by a merchant on the road not to drink either the water or the muddy-coloured ales because the plague had recently been raging in the city and the streams might still be infected . |
| 4 | This kind of maladaptive feature would be hard to explain if we had been designed by an all-wise creator , but is to be expected if structures change their functions in the course of evolution . |
| 5 | For fourteen years we have been bashed by the Tories , we have been led by a pound of poof T U C and as now it 's time to stand up and be counted . |
| 6 | But the fact remains that for the last 13 years we have been governed by a party rejected by nearly 60pc of voters . |
| 7 | We have been approached by a video company interested in collaborating with production and marketing , but this would require funding in order to go ahead — costs could be recovered through sales . |
| 8 | Indeed , all the millions of cells that make up each one of us have been formed by a process of successive cell divisions , during each of which the 46 chromosomes were first faithfully duplicated , and then separated to form two new daughter cells . |