Example sentences of "[vb past] [be] [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The kinds of errors he made are illustrated by these responses : |
| 2 | The responsibility for the serious incident to which he referred was shared among several water authorities . |
| 3 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 4 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 5 | At speeds of ninety miles a Police car chased a stolen white fiesta … through narrow country lanes … cars coming in the oppositie direction swerve to avoid it car as it weaves in and out of the traffic … at times the Police try to overtake it … without success … forty miles after they spotted the stolen car … the road clears and the Police overtake and stop them … three schoolboys are arrested … one of them … a passenger … is fourteen … in the past eight months he 's been arrested twenty eight times … the day before he 'd been placed under another supervision order by Milton Keynes Magistrates where he 'd faced charges of robbery and burglary and joy riding … it was from the children 's home he 'd been sent that his two friends picked him up . |
| 6 | But of course we were very strongly against it really but er , because th you know we 'd been inundated with all these marvellous ideas of this progress and it 's all for the best and everything , but it does n't seemed to have work does it really ? |
| 7 | she 'd been put on that file — ‘ just by mistake ’ , |
| 8 | Well no before that , I mean I 'd been told before all this Pete business yesterday night , I was told Elliot fancied me and that was true you know ? |
| 9 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 10 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 11 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 12 | Right , David , you said you 'd been approached by another insurance company , er , I could obviously say , I recommended Abbey Life , and I 'm tied to that , but I actually joined because I think they 're a particularly good company , in that what , in the use they make of the money that I 'm paying , actually goes , performs very well . |
| 13 | ‘ Great strapping brutes they were , with backs on them like the deck of a ship , ’ William 's grandad said , who 'd been thrown off both and knew . |
| 14 | She had a skullcracker of a headache , and guessed she 'd been opened in several places by knifecuts , branded in others by dollops of fire . |
| 15 | Adjusting frontiers is historically enormously difficult , there may be two or three very clear cases in the Soviet Union when it came be done without much dispute by general agreement , but on the whole I reckon that observation of human rights is the way to approach this , and then of course the er growth of economic prosperity if it comes will actually help to ease these problems . |
| 16 | On March 7 the Iraqis released the first 1,000 of the Kuwaitis taken prisoner at the end of the Iraqi occupation , the total number of those abducted being given as some 7,000 . |
| 17 | He hated being exposed like this . |
| 18 | Well the people that done it did n't get caught but the corridor on which it happened was fined for all the equipment . |
| 19 | On the other hand , anti-papalism and anti-Catholicism had struck deep roots within Elizabethan society , and when England was threatened by Spain in the late 1580s the war that followed was viewed by many in England as a glorious life or death struggle for national and religious survival against the evil forces of the counter-Reformation . |
| 20 | PC World chairman Jan Murray reckons it was only a matter of time before PCs lost their premium product status and started being treated like any other commodity item . |
| 21 | For someone who , according to Naylor 's belief , should be sorely upset that the woman he loved was engaged to another , Travis was coping exceedingly well . |
| 22 | The numbers of consultations , home visits and night calls reported for those in such homes for a year or more before they died are compared with those for others under the care of a general practitioner in Table 4 . |
| 23 | Teachers with interests in , and commitments to , humanities , English and creative and expressive arts felt ill-at-ease with teaching science and mathematics , not just because of their lack of confidence with the subject ( though this was important ) , but also because of their discomfort with the very different pedagogies , very different ways of relating to children they felt were associated with those other subjects . |
| 24 | The implied limitation for which Hambros Jersey contended is riddled with such serious , glaring anomalies that Parliament can not be presumed to have intended to legislate in such terms . |
| 25 | The earthenwares it produced were marked in several ways . |
| 26 | Treasury [ 1979 ] 1 W.L.R. 1056 , but it seems to me that the court regarded the powers as being capable of legitimate exercise after charge , but only if ( a ) the questions put were limited to those permitted by what are now the concluding words of what is now paragraph 16.5 of Code C , and ( b ) they were preceded by a caution . |
| 27 | The simplified and more rational legal framework that it introduced is unified by some powerful principles that speak to those issues . |
| 28 | It was a help to us because all other traffic had been halted in both directions and we were able to race along on the wrong side of the road . |
| 29 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 30 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |