Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] [adv prt] [prep] " 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 | So they 'd been sent down into the rock no doubt still with orders to draw blood from the air . |
| 3 | Can you imagine getting dragged down to Lord 's only after you 'd been hung up by every sports page in the country ? |
| 4 | 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 . |
| 5 | 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 . |
| 6 | 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 . |
| 7 | ‘ A year ago father went to Brittany ; he 'd been saving up for years and he went on a nine-day excursion . |
| 8 | 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 . |
| 9 | Dawn Allenby seemed annoyed too , though that was possibly because she 'd been cheated out of those extra moments in his arms . |
| 10 | After that row with my father , I felt I 'd been turned down by them all . |
| 11 | Er w and he 'd been turned down by and all the other er top lawyers in |
| 12 | I had n't had a lot of luck finding the man I wanted , but at least I 'd been getting up to date on my social exercises , like who was drinking with who , and in what bars . |
| 13 | Within minutes the car was free , and before I could thank the young farmer I 'd been invited back for a cup of tea and some hot broth . |
| 14 | Then this lad who 'd been padded up with John come round to see us . |
| 15 | as if he 'd been cut out of tin . |
| 16 | If you 'd been tossed around in the eddies down there I would n't have given much for your chances . ’ |
| 17 | ‘ It 's A Game ’ , ‘ Money Honey ’ , ‘ Shang A Lang ’ and , um , a lot of padding from the Rollers ' post ‘ 77 career after they 'd been shot down in flames , plucked , shucked , gutted , roasted , eaten , shat out and buggered in the back of the neck and then locked in the attic with Mad Auntie Maude from Nottingham for two weeks by the ultimate manufactured band , the Sex Pistols . |
| 18 | Yes , yes , but erm , you know , I have had to say to the chaps , one of them came in and he said he 'd been spoiled down at the cedar and I said oh well , I , I 've been cooking a breakfast for Neil of course by the operation of sods law , Neil suddenly goes off the idea of having breakfast , so I find myself cooking breakfast for this other lump , who is as idol and selfish as anybody ever met in all the born days , and I said to him just recently , I said , I , I ca n't get up and do breakfast 's in the morning any more , well he says he come 's down and does he 's own , you see they can when they feel that they want too . |
| 19 | ‘ She was n't frightened of flying , but she was very frightened of the seat belt , so I think she 'd been tied down at one time . |
| 20 | Rayleen did n't find anything else broken , though she seemed convinced I 'd been run over by a steamroller . |
| 21 | ‘ It seemed to me she 'd been worn down by leading a life she was n't fitted for . |
| 22 | He 'd been pottering around in the big old half-ruined sheds on the other side of the quarry , one day back in the summer . |
| 23 | He had fancied being a poet when he was a boy — before he 'd been thrust out into the real world to try to earn a living . |
| 24 | They felt as if they 'd been scoured out with a Brillo pad . |
| 25 | If they 'd been traced back to here , it would have been your responsibility . ’ |
| 26 | She 'd been carrying on outside all morning and |
| 27 | What he 'd been leading up to all week ? |
| 28 | It was n't the same corridor : it was narrower than the one they 'd been carried along on the transporter . |
| 29 | There crawled into my mind one nasty little question that I 'd been fighting off till now . |
| 30 | She still did n't know what had happened when she 'd been put through to the room . |