Example sentences of "[vb past] be [vb pp] [adv] [to-vb] " in BNC.
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| 1 | 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 . |
| 2 | Well , she 'd been warned not to expect the welcome mat , Sabine thought , as she drove under the arch . |
| 3 | Maybe if I 'd been encouraged then to find pleasure and personal fulfilment instead of pain and resentment I could manage to beat the under-11s on those final few metres . |
| 4 | Claudia was talking to Philip ; she wished he was beside her , but after the first ten minutes , he 'd been taken away to talk to someone else . |
| 5 | In fact , I 'd been brought up to regard failure at anything as the ultimate sin . |
| 6 | Braving the cameras and the columnists , and the experts who 'd been brought in to analyse every glance and nuance of their body language , they faced the world , and slowly worked at healing the rift between them . |
| 7 | Similarly , the National Council of Educational Research and Training pilot project at Bhumiadhat ( India ) which aimed at the expansion of non formal education found that any success noted was felt primarily to lie in such atypical factors as the extensive community development programmes which accompanied the project and , as in the Lofoten study , in the exceptional talents of some of the staff . |
| 8 | Almost certainly the eldest child — Theresa , was n't it ? — had been taught not to accept lifts from strangers , particularly men , and he was virtually a stranger . |
| 9 | I had been taught not to cry till I was really hurt , and so it was not until about eleven o'clock I really began to be noticed and I went into the theatre . |
| 10 | We had been taught how to set up a simple charge with detonator and fuse . |
| 11 | He had been taught how to play lacrosse as a boy at the Stockport Secondary School by the Physics master , Mr. William White , an Old Stopfordian , and after the war he reintroduced the game to the Grammar School . |
| 12 | The pavements had been cobbled here to give it a quaint feel , and coach-loads of tourists were shuffling along with cameras dangling and guides chivvying . |
| 13 | Miranda Everard had been raised always to avoid pickups . |
| 14 | If the Council 's Temporary Press Officer , who had been appointed solely to deal with the alleged child abuse controversy , had been given such confidential information , she said , they wanted to know who had given it to him . |
| 15 | Also these towns have large areas of old nineteenth century houses which had been built cheaply to house the workers near the mills and mines . |
| 16 | By the 1940s , retirement had been written in to state support for the elderly and , as such , became part of a new institutionalized dependence . |
| 17 | The recollections of those who worked with him in the war years show a striking convergence : volunteers were won over instantly by the self-assured prophetic tone in which he discussed the war and by his knack of making them feel that they had been singled out to receive a confidence . |
| 18 | She had been mistaken ever to think that he would come . |
| 19 | They looked as if they had been arranged by some cleaner who had been sent in to tidy up and who did not know that in this room Ernest Jarvis had hanged himself . |
| 20 | Chief Inspector Chips Salter was one of the officers they had been sent in to bring under control and Salter both guessed this ( although all such information was supposed to be highly confidential ) , and naturally — resented it . |
| 21 | At what they supposed to be the rendezvous they sat down to wait , unaware that a relief patrol of the LRDG had been sent out to pick them up — from a different place . |
| 22 | His scheme for the amalgamation of Nigeria , which Lugard had been sent out to accomplish , differed completely from the one proposed by Lugard : Lugard 's scheme envisaged a strong governor , Temple 's a weak one , with the responsibility for local affairs placed firmly in the hands of the Residents . |
| 23 | The sacks had been hung out to dry . |
| 24 | After their first encounter , the couple began seeing one another regularly , but the romance fizzled out after Mr Clinton returned to America , believing he had been called up to fight in the Vietnam war . |
| 25 | He had been called on to take the job in the name of the Imam and the survival of the Islamic Republic . |
| 26 | To many his shrewdest move was to die , of brain cancer and pneumonia , in May 1987 , before he had been called on to give an account of the role he had played in the affair . |
| 27 | By that time I was working as a registrar in an infectious diseases hospital and had been called out to see a very ill child who had just been admitted to the unit . |
| 28 | Harpenden police confirmed that a unit had been called out to resolve a dispute between Andy Linighan and a taxi driver . |
| 29 | Fortunately the patrol recognized the doctor and my father , and after learning that the doctor had been called out to visit a seriously ill patient , the men saluted and disappeared into the darkness . |
| 30 | His half-brother had been called in to act as best man in place of his real brother who had vanished to Spain . |