Example sentences of "had been [vb pp] [adv] by [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | On another occasion he had been struck once by another man at work and we were furious at him for not returning the blow . |
| 2 | Having survived the early years of childhood , unlike so many of his siblings , he had been struck down by that other malady which afflicted a tragically high proportion of those who lived on into teenage years and beyond . |
| 3 | And yet , in her case , it did not appear to him that she had been struck down by any kind of ordinary post-natal depression , as Adams 's next words seemed to confirm . |
| 4 | We shall have to wait until each is announced , but the possibility of reopening new routes — a far cry from bus substitution — raises a new image for the sector which ten years ago had been written off by some people as a collection of unremunerative passenger railways . |
| 5 | ‘ That 's right , ’ replied the other Commando , ‘ If we had been screwed down by these Nazi bastards for four years , we would be doing more than pinching their boots . ’ |
| 6 | If so , then it was a case of sweet revenge for Whittingham , who had been shot down by this unit over England during 1940 ! |
| 7 | But that is not to take anything away from Rogallo whose researches with NACA at the Langley Research Center into Parawings were well known , and had been picked up by several inventive minds in the kite world . |
| 8 | A government spokesman confirmed on May 22 that China had conducted an underground nuclear test ; evidence of a major nuclear explosion had been picked up by several monitoring stations the previous day . |
| 9 | A crotchety old bugger ( any kid 's grandfather ) who had , in a state of terror , escaped in his machine from an advanced civilisation on a distant planet which had been taken over by some unknown enemy . |
| 10 | More recently Marrakesh had been taken over by some of the biggest names in haute couture . |
| 11 | Sally-Anne sometimes thought that her career as a housemaid had been sparked off by that remark as much as by anything else — that and discovering how hard life was in the East End , and her determination to write about it from the inside , rather than as a privileged outsider looking in . |
| 12 | A complete set of drills had been worked out by this time with , for example , five phases in recovering a swimmer after his recce . |
| 13 | She tried telling herself that he was just another idle aristocratic adventurer ; she had been looked over by several of the type and others of lesser breeding during her ten years in the public eye at the Fish . |