Example sentences of "[vb past] been [verb] [adv prt] " in BNC.
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| 1 | ‘ Er weddin' dress 'ad been run up for 'er by Mrs Stuart that 'ad only just give up 'er job workin' for a dressmaker in Shoreditch . |
| 2 | Extraordinary as those visits were — and as warmly welcomed as he found himself in the diverse Kesparates of Yzordderrex — the city state was an autocracy of the most extreme kind , its excesses dwarfing the repressions of the country he 'd been born in . |
| 3 | ‘ We 'd been sent out here on Uncle Mick 's money . |
| 4 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 5 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | He 'd been beaten up once and arrested once . ’ |
| 8 | He passed the day skulking around cafes , and when Georges met him by chance later on he confessed he 'd been beaten up in his flat because he 'd agreed to do a favour for someone and it had gone wrong . |
| 9 | He 'd been beaten up , lied to , and left flat on his back in the Underground . |
| 10 | I 'd been mucking around and none of my mates like that . |
| 11 | I mean , even if there had been some war I did believe worth fighting , if I 'd been called up or something , I 'm a coward , I 'm just not physically capable . |
| 12 | Yes , it 's just a plaque and erm but The thing that erm I enjoyed on that occasion was meeting the other conservationists who 'd been called up . |
| 13 | Flaherty said to be sure this was true , although he misremembered the last time they 'd been called on to supply them , it being all of two years since the Wolfkings had been driven out by the Gruagach . |
| 14 | well needs a I think one of the things we discussed in the branch action group meeting is actually , were n't quite sure what the cos we 'd been sending out for quite less than ten of the branches because to do something to them which was mm apparently lots of them in but erm well they keep disappearing so that the what we 've been talking about is to try and get some points erm health and safety station within the branch , which actually just has all this stuff for it . |
| 15 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 16 | Caswell had n't only been doing some thinking , he 'd been looking up maps and timetables . |
| 17 | ‘ It was just that a couple of times I 'd been looking out , or I 'd just glance up as I passed , and , well , I 'd seen her there . |
| 18 | I 'd been looking down all the time we were talking , but he made me look up then , and our eyes met and I know something passed between us . |
| 19 | In all the time that he 'd been living out on the Step Pete had seen only one stranger go by , and that was a hiker who 'd stopped to ask the way because he 'd been lost . |
| 20 | You 're right , are n't you Yes , once he got going , I knew why I 'd been holding back . |
| 21 | Dawn Allenby seemed annoyed too , though that was possibly because she 'd been cheated out of those extra moments in his arms . |
| 22 | The second letter told me so I thought they 'd been bombed out . |
| 23 | Yes , if we skip all the intermediate years with , after the war I came back from the army to find we 'd been bombed out and were living in requisition accommodation , after a time , the , we were moved into a new flat over some shops . |
| 24 | from down by the Nag 's Head , who 'd been bombed out . |
| 25 | He 'd been singled out . |
| 26 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 27 | Er w and he 'd been turned down by and all the other er top lawyers in |
| 28 | He told me he applied but I thought he told me he 'd been turned down . |
| 29 | He wanted to know how I 'd been getting on , and who 'd been helping me out . |
| 30 | I thought we 'd been getting on pretty well but as Father 's Day approached , Joe made it clear that I could n't hope to be any more than just second best |