Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] [det] " in BNC.
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| 1 | She 'd been strangled with some kind of flex or cord . |
| 2 | The touch of his hands on her back that afternoon … she 'd been gripped by such a war of reaction inside her . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | 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 ? |
| 5 | she 'd been put on that file — ‘ just by mistake ’ , |
| 6 | 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 ? |
| 7 | I tried to remember when I 'd been held like that before , and by whom . |
| 8 | ‘ I felt I 'd been caught in some street scam . |
| 9 | She 'd been married in that hat . |
| 10 | 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 . |
| 11 | ‘ 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 . |
| 12 | 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 . |
| 13 | 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 . |
| 14 | Captain Glen had recently reported that the university had been retaken with little opposition , and Mortimer had immediately set off . |
| 15 | I felt he had been struck by some arresting thought . |
| 16 | as if he had been struck by some unseen force into stillness , he stopped , his right arm still embracing an imaginary figure , his left arm extended . |
| 17 | It was a dramatic gesture , a revelation ; it put him in a position of power , if only for a moment , but he liked that position and his primacy had been denied in that group of irreverents . |
| 18 | Add the fact that by my visit ( Easter 1990 ) paths had been cleared under several hundred metres of new cliff to the left , and that six bolt-guns were at work equipping lines on an impressive upper tier , and I 'm sure the next guidebook will be at least twice as thick . |
| 19 | This room had been cleared of all but two of the great packages . |
| 20 | Bending down , he saw that although the space had been cleared with some care , there were traces of charcoal mingled with sand . |
| 21 | P cepacia was not recovered from the external surface of the spirometer handpiece , or from the arms of a wooden chair that had been grasped by each patient during spirometry . |
| 22 | After 24 hours of intensive talks France , West Germany and Italy agreed on June 7 to lift their import bans in return for a UK undertaking to provide certification that meat on the bone came from farms where no BSE had been detected in any cattle in the past two years , and that boneless meat exports had been stripped of all offal and other tissues which could harbour BSE ; live cattle could be exported only when under six months old and provided that they were not the calves of infected animals . |
| 23 | Their roots lay deep in the shell-holes and in the earthen barricades which had been erected with such sectarian conviction more than a decade before . |
| 24 | It had been realised by this time that , even if polythene did not fit into the then accepted mould for plastics , which tended to be glassy substances like polystyrene and Perspex , it might still be useful . |
| 25 | McCallen who had been rammed by another rider earlier in the race was unhurt by his fall but obviously still shaken up . |
| 26 | His thoughts , when they finally came , had been uttered in all their simplistic banality , in no particular order of logic or relevance , and in a curiously gentle voice punctuated by long pauses in which he had gazed thoughtfully at the throne and appeared to commune happily with some inner presence . |
| 27 | Writing to a colleague at Caserta , he mentioned that he had been presented with some tricky problems concerning the status of individual British subjects in Austria , and he then went on to mention , among " similar problems " he had been confronted with : " if captured Cossacks fighting with the Germans are to be handed over to the Russians , what should be done with White Russians with French nationality ? |
| 28 | There , as if a curtain had been raised on both sides of the river , suddenly were campsites , fishing and bathing . |
| 29 | Jackie Stewart also announced that the record sum of £200,000 had been raised by this year 's Jackie Stewart Celebrity Challenge . |
| 30 | Sales by 1948 were almost double those of ten years earlier , though the installed capacity of power stations had been increased by less than half of this . |