Example sentences of "[pers pn] [vb past] been [verb] [adj] " in BNC.
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| 1 | I also remember proudly coming home to tell Dad I 'd been made head prefect of my grammar school . |
| 2 | Like the other women , I 'd recently left my own home because I could n't carry on there any longer and I 'd been given safe spaces by friends with room to spare . |
| 3 | I used to have quite a complex about being beaten , but I met Liz after I 'd been beaten hollow all year and she still married me . ’ |
| 4 | ‘ If I 'd been educated proper , I expect I 'd be able to talk more , ’ said Dolly , ‘ specially if I 'ad good looks and not just a sort of orphanage face . |
| 5 | And I 'd been to top standard as it was then it was standard seven , and as the er you know now they let when the when they 've somebody in so long they let them walk about and come home and all so That time of day you got to you 'd got to pass examins and exams and such like as that . |
| 6 | Well I mo moved because promotion was in the line for me , I was in the Royal Marine Police in island depot in Plymouth and er I 'd been put on plain clothes work and I 'd been doing acting sergeant you know when the sergeant was off sick and all that business and er I 'd put , been put in for this to move because we had a two bedroom bungalow but the twins were getting big and I realized that we 'd have to have another bedroom you know , very soon and er , this seemed an opportunity to get a house and also in Plymouth , that Plymouth was a naval town , you see , there was still those days there was still kind of a , a lower deck of sons , what they call lower deckers , in other words you know people in the lower deck of the navy , their sons did n't really have much , ever have much chance of getting into places like Dartmouth College or Cramwell to do as cadets , well the headmaster at Regent Street School had said to me that Keith was very keen on flying , he was aeroplane mad you see , and , he wanted to go in the Royal Air Force , well he said to me he said oh no put him in the Navy and as a chief art as an artificer , so I said oh no , I said if he goes in the Navy or the service I want him to go in the front door not like me the back door , I had ambition for him |
| 7 | I was in Italy , it was early morning , and I 'd been lying awake for about three hours . |
| 8 | I was relieved for myself , as I had been dreading driving again so soon . |
| 9 | ‘ It would have helped ’ , I mumbled under my breath , ‘ if I had been drinking chlorinated water . ’ |
| 10 | A telephone call to establish whether I had been made redundant or , if not , to inform me of the administrative delay , would have been far more appropriate , and possibly cheaper , than a typed letter announcing the uncleared cheque and the administrative charge . |
| 11 | It was called in 1974 , just after I had been appointed Chief Inspector of Accidents . |
| 12 | The other was a notification from the Foreign Office that I had been appointed Honorary Attache to HRH the Duke of Gloucester who would attend the coronation as the representative of his father , King George V. |
| 13 | Suppose that in my wife 's absence I had been knocked unconscious by a burglar . |
| 14 | It was an immediate transformation of my personal and social outlook and it started in me a new sort of excitement — it was as though you 'd been shot full of adrenalin . |
| 15 | if you 'd been buried alive you think |
| 16 | So let's look at now you 've been doing I noticed today you 'd been doing differentiating products . |
| 17 | SHe 'd been charting possible escape routes for a while now , the main reason for not taking advantage of them being a certain concurrence with Jahsaxa 's opinion that blackouts could occur on the street . |
| 18 | She 'd been feeling sick a morning or two , but not so as it interfered with her work , and no one remarked on it . |
| 19 | She 'd been feeling lonely and vulnerable . |
| 20 | It was as though she 'd been let loose from shackles she had n't even known she 'd been wearing . |
| 21 | She 'd been sitting motionless for over an hour , conducting an inner battle over the need to alert the board of Chester 's about Guy 's perfidy , with the stubborn hope that somehow she might be wrong keeping her glued to the spot , torn with indecision … |
| 22 | She felt great , better rested than she 'd felt for weeks now , the little aches of fatigue she 'd been growing used to now all miraculously ironed out . |
| 23 | She had been wearing blue faded jeans , and a white sweat shirt flattened against the pointed nipples and the upturned breasts ; the cotton seeming too thin a protection against the freshening onshore breeze . |
| 24 | She was always prepared to the utmost and if she felt she had been given good advice , then she took it immediately . |
| 25 | In imagination Mrs. Pridmore followed her daughter as she pedalled vigorously on her way ; bumping down the rough farm track between Mr. Bowlem 's flat fields to Tenpenny Road , past old Mrs. Button 's cottage where , as a child , she had been given rice-cake and home-made lemonade , by Tenpenny Dyke where she still picked cowslips in summer , then a right turn into Chevisham Road and the straight two miles skirting Captain Massey 's land and into Chevisham village . |
| 26 | In December 1986 she had had a transient ischaemic attack for which she had been given enteric coated aspirin ( ecotrin 300 mg/day ) . |
| 27 | She had been kept alive by means of a feeding tube , which was disconnected following the court 's decision , and she died on Dec. 26 . |
| 28 | She had been born blind and her disability had enriched rather than restricted her life . |
| 29 | ‘ Not at all , ’ Rain said quickly , deducing she had been looking bored . |
| 30 | She tugged at the sides of the hammock and hooked her head forward as she whispered to Ariel , who was standing away from her , the moss she had been using dripping water on to the dust . |