Example sentences of "[vb past] be [verb] a [noun] " in BNC.
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| 1 | The services promised were to provide a room , fuel , clothing , to wash clothing , or to visit if sick . |
| 2 | Although we did n't realize it , the books we used were becoming a tie between us , and the hours we spent together were becoming more and more enjoyable . |
| 3 | Only to wish that I 'd been born a boy . ’ |
| 4 | If he 'd been born an American he 'd have been high up in the CIA — and still informing Moscow … ’ |
| 5 | Though he did n't view the prospect with any sort of enthusiasm ( he 'd been sent a script , but had n't bothered to read it ) he knew that activity of some sort , something he had to do , was always better than nothing . |
| 6 | I 'd been made a lance-corporal just before we left and had been put in charge of a group of boys . |
| 7 | I had n't been thinking of stress or shock , I 'd been nursing a hangover . |
| 8 | Kenneth came across it while returning from a far-flung artist 's studio where he 'd been to purchase a John Miller watercolour for my birthday . |
| 9 | ‘ He 'd been called a wop and I was called a coon . |
| 10 | I 'd been taking a bucket of slack to the washhouse where all the women were gathered gossiping . |
| 11 | So I do n't You know whilst I would have normally if I 'd been teaching a class done about five or six examples of that , that 's all you 're gon na get . |
| 12 | They 'd been sharing a cell for the last two years . |
| 13 | Dot wished she 'd been given a bed nearer one of the windows so she could see out , or at least by the door . |
| 14 | I do n't think I could have handled it if I 'd been given a sentence . |
| 15 | She 'd been given a rail warrant to Lowestoft , where the RTO had handed her over to the navy . |
| 16 | He 'd been given a position in prison administration in Paris , and Sylvia thought he might be of help to her in finding Madeleine and Jeanne . |
| 17 | If she 'd been given a test she could have been treated . |
| 18 | I 'd been given a date for the baby to arrive but that came and went , but then I woke up in the early hours of the following Friday . |
| 19 | I 'd been given a pair of lime green webbed gloves as a wedding present by Roger , my surfing guru in Newquay . |
| 20 | I 'd been given a hint that something like this could be on the cards when I was first approached . ’ |
| 21 | But I sat in yesterday afternoon and I felt sorry for the man 's daughter who 'd been given a hymn the service . |
| 22 | A bandage round his head , a cup of tea in his blunt hands , he looked like the only survivor of some great catastrophe , and Nathan could understand exactly why he 'd been able to move India-May to tears and why he 'd been given a room on the first floor , one of the large ones , for nothing . |
| 23 | So he made a couple of phone calls to Osnabrück-he found he 'd been given a room with an Engineer regiment-then sipped a lager until train time . |
| 24 | Without consulting her it began to move faster , inciting her lover to a rhythm which he responded to triumphantly , accelerating in time with their heartbeats , taking her with him towards the culmination she 'd been given a foretaste of , which paled in comparison to the flooding rapture which overtook her seconds before Penry gasped , stiffened , then crushed her in his arms as their breathing slowed in the shared diminuendo of the aftermath . |
| 25 | Some might say that you 'd been given a job and failed to do it . |
| 26 | He 'd been given a meeting place he knew of . |
| 27 | It was as if she 'd been given a glimpse of paradise , and then had it barred to her forever . |
| 28 | Well I I think er it 's it 's quite hard to talk about it but er cer I th I think people were grieved that the bonus system that had been going since the quarry was started up again by 's father was gon na be scrapped with really no consultation with the workers if you like , and I think everybody thought that you know we 'd been producing a lot of slate and been paid well for it previously and he should leave well alone . |
| 29 | She thought she knew what might have been on his mind , because he 'd been writing a letter in the Lounge . |
| 30 | ‘ He 'd been drinking a lot . |