Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] [prep] [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Strange , she thought crossly , that the Copenhageners were n't all wearing ankle bandages , but then they 'd been born to the decorative but tricky pavements and attuned their footwear accordingly . |
| 2 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 3 | I was in the last category , I reckoned , which did n't stop me wishing I 'd been born into the first . |
| 4 | Ted was a child of the sixties , but he sounded as if he 'd been born in the Blitz . |
| 5 | ‘ He 'd been sent to a friend of mine to be sold , but he was a little bit difficult to place . |
| 6 | They 'd been separated in the fracas which followed their parachute descent into northern France , and she feared that Jeanne had been killed in the fighting . |
| 7 | But they had n't been made at Fords , they 'd been made in a subsidiary , taken up the road on long trailers , taken off the trailer onto the assembly conveyor , which er crawls round the assembly line and fitted like that . |
| 8 | He 'd lost weight , his eyes were staring and red as if they 'd been rolled in grit , and his clothes hung on him like a scarecrow 's ; it was almost as if , in the course of the past few weeks , he 'd been drained of the zest and the energy and the sense of confidence that she 'd steadily been picking up . |
| 9 | Lady Laetitia had forgotten all she 'd been taught in the morning and everything had to be rehearsed again . |
| 10 | He 'd been beaten about the head . |
| 11 | He 'd been beaten about the head . |
| 12 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 13 | He 'd been beaten around the head . |
| 14 | He 'd been beaten around the head and his throat had been cut . |
| 15 | We 'd entered him in the Novice section , but he 'd been upgraded in the meantime . |
| 16 | Rain knew Oliver was picturing himself back in the wine bar in Chelsea telling everyone how he 'd been mistaken for a drug dealer and nearly done to death in a Mediterranean backstreet by an underworld rival . |
| 17 | Nine hours after she 'd been bundled into the room , they unceremoniously dumped Adam in with her . |
| 18 | It was gone in a moment , but briefly she 'd been filled with a sudden , oddly urgent desire to know more about him . |
| 19 | I did put the landing light on , though , as I 'd been ambushed in the dark on those stairs before , barely escaping with my life . |
| 20 | ‘ If we 'd been pounced upon a year ago we 'd have had maybe one good song and we would have been shit and not ready , without our style defined . ’ |
| 21 | I left before the tour was over because it was time for Mott The Hoople to come and tour and I 'd been designated as the person to take care of them , so I went off before it was over . |
| 22 | must be when I looked at it they 'd been grown in the field , because it 's burnt , you can see it 's got this reddish muck where all the mud down |
| 23 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 24 | ‘ He 'd been slumped over the freezer for some minutes before anyone realised anything was wrong , ’ he said . |
| 25 | The fact that Margaret had been illegitimate , a war baby conceived between an Italian prisoner of war and an English landgirl , had no bearing on her name , although probably quite a lot to do with Margaret 's lack of maternalism , since she 'd been reared in a children 's home . |
| 26 | Luce froze , realising how easily she 'd been lulled into a false sense of security . |
| 27 | She 'd been elected to the National Executive Committee and she stood up , said how pleased she was , and then said , ‘ But now I have to take the bucket round for a collection because that 's what I always do … ’ and I just thought , ‘ How wonderful ’ . |
| 28 | ‘ The Ministry would have been only too happy to hand you over stuffed and pickled if they 'd been asked in the proper way . |
| 29 | Judith had once confided that she too had an uncertain grasp of the past , though she 'd been drunk at the time , and had denied it vehemently when he 'd raised the subject again . |
| 30 | He laughed , and then added that he 'd been drunk as a cork himself actually , the night before . |