Example sentences of "[vb past] been [vb pp] at [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | But she 'd been born at a better time and there were arts councils and they had been good to her . |
| 2 | ‘ They all looked as though they 'd been written at a different time from the rest of the notes on the cards . |
| 3 | 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 . |
| 4 | Rory jumped as though she 'd been shot at the sound of the lazily amused voice materialising apparently out of nowhere . |
| 5 | Later today the body was identified as that of a 23 year old man from Cheltenham , who 'd been seen at the race course last night . |
| 6 | and erm as usual this was erm , this created a bit of controversy because erm temporary staff , according to the reading of the minute , did n't er , were n't entitled to war bonus because erm , they 'd been appointed at a certain salary and er that was that and er , but in the end we managed to get our war bonus as well so we were on equal pegging with the , with the other staff . |
| 7 | Used to creating and presenting ideas to a wide variety of clients , she 'd grown proud of her capacity to keep her head under pressure , yet from the moment she 'd crossed the threshold of this impressive room she 'd been put at a distinct disadvantage . |
| 8 | When I got into work on the big day I found out he 'd been arrested at the weekend . |
| 9 | It was reported that over-ripe tomatoes and some oldish eggs had been tossed at the door of two southern commercial stations , which was a smear tactic we deplored with emphasis . |
| 10 | Convergence associated with the continuing subduction of the remaining oceanic lithosphere along the plate margin would be maintained until the plate boundary had been fixed at a sufficient number of points to resist further subduction . |
| 11 | The manners which Topaz had been taught at the convent were good enough as a basis for acceptable behaviour , but she soon discovered that she had a great deal more to learn , and would also have to adopt a whole new set of values . |
| 12 | Assuming the Turkey Pens had been situated at the rear of the house , he reckoned he was now heading for the outer fence somewhere off to the north side of the grounds . |
| 13 | Those results would suggest that the other tumours were in fact new tumours , rather than persistent tumours which had been missed at the first cystoscopy . |
| 14 | Mr Piggott clicked his false teeth in disapproval at such wicked waste , and shook his head at the ‘ FOR SALE ’ board which had been erected at the gate the week before . |
| 15 | A makeshift stage had been erected at the staircase end and , above it , Class 1 had hung a large , hand-painted Islamic crescent moon and star . |
| 16 | Ram-raiders used a stolen van to break into the Wineways store in Edgehill Road , Scarborough , just two months ago after bollards had been erected at the store to prevent such attacks . |
| 17 | The subject had been raised at a meeting between Prime Minister Petre Roman and President Mitterrand of France in Paris on July 18 . |
| 18 | No objection had been raised at the time , he said , and ‘ it is absurd that they should start to quibble a week later and try to reopen the issue ’ . |
| 19 | Ranteallo explained that a stone had been raised at the death of every Toraja king , and indeed queen — though no one remembered their names beyond a few generations . |
| 20 | He left behind him at Faber and Faber a most efficient young secretary , Miss Valerie Fletcher , who had been appointed at the end of August . |
| 21 | Towards the end of 1782 Gibson , the new estate manager for Sir Michael le Fleming , wrote to his master informing that a new steward had been appointed at the Coniston Mines on the 10th of November . |
| 22 | Jordi García Candau , a journalist and lawyer , was on Feb. 26 , 1990 , appointed director-general of Radio Televisión Española ( RTVE ) , replacing Luis Solana who had been appointed at the beginning of 1989 [ see p. 36776 ] . |
| 23 | But a spokesman said that all the claims the family are making had been aired at the mens trial two years ago and rejected by the jury . |
| 24 | Four cottage almshouses had been built at the eastern end of Strand-on-the-Green , in the first half of the eighteenth century , and dedicated ‘ for Ye use of Ye poor of Chiswick for ever ’ . |
| 25 | For the prizegiving a platform had been built at the back of the stands where the Princess Royal , assisted by Jackie Stewart , presented the prizes to the teams and individuals . |
| 26 | They had managed to buy the son of inexpensive terrace house which had been built at the end of the nineteenth century for workers and which still continued to be in a working-class area . |
| 27 | It was then contended that because the name , the signature as the judge had held it to be , had been written at the top of the document before the dispositive contents had been written , it could not have been intended ‘ to give effect to ’ the dispositive contents . |
| 28 | Much of the recent work had been written at the ‘ macro ’ level , relying on statistics of national income or on general surveys of the economy . |
| 29 | In June 1991 Sue Millar left Orkney 's Social Work Department saying this move , to further another strand in her career , had been planned at the beginning of the year . |
| 30 | It had been derailed at the entrance while approaching at speed with a sleeper service from Penzance ; miraculously there were no serious injuries , though much of the track at the station throat had to be relaid . |