Example sentences of "'d [been] [vb pp] by [art] " in BNC.
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| 1 | Then , three nights later , she 'd been visited by an erotic dream that regularly haunted her . |
| 2 | ‘ I think he 'd been fascinated by the wooden leg banging on the floor . |
| 3 | She could not make out the words , but knew instinctively they 'd been uttered by the uncle of her child . |
| 4 | She 'd been killed by an electric shock . |
| 5 | Dot was glad she 'd been warned by the dancing man because there was no warning from Gloria . |
| 6 | They 'd been denigrated by the clinical psycho anal analysts who have followed after Freud , and used Freudian therapy , because they 're non-therapeutic . |
| 7 | Did I tell you that we 'd been adopted by a kitten ? |
| 8 | ‘ I 'd been kicked by a horse and lost two front teeth and he took me out to lunch and gave me asparagus . |
| 9 | I felt like I 'd been kicked by a camel but I still needed food , so I polished off the eclair , belched with all the decorum I could , and started eyeing up a Danish pastry . |
| 10 | Then he stood up and strode from the room , and she all but collapsed into the chair he 'd just vacated , feeling as though she 'd been battered by a storm at sea . |
| 11 | The roadshow now belongs to the mythology of the miners , the leadership had made the effort , they 'd gone on the road , and they 'd been rewarded by a clutch of standing ovations . |
| 12 | We 'd been struck by a lightning bolt . |
| 13 | Hugh was not an absolutely brilliant solicitor but he knew when he 'd been out-manoeuvred by a ruthless opponent . |
| 14 | I 'd been trained by the P-PRD Division . |
| 15 | ‘ They pretended that Paul was hit by a ricochet , but the evidence was clear that he 'd been hit by a direct shot . |
| 16 | A second , searing stroke made her gasp for breath , as fire exploded in her backside as if she 'd been hit by a ball of lightning . |
| 17 | Told Tyler Beck he 'd been hit by a truck . |
| 18 | ‘ You told Tyler Beck you 'd been hit by a truck . ’ |
| 19 | He 'd been hit by a car three weeks before , and he had a broken arm and pelvis . |
| 20 | Another possibility , also in view of your youth , was that you 'd been seduced by the idea of flouting convention by involving yourself with a married man . |
| 21 | He 'd gone and been impressed with what he 'd been told by the visiting medium , though he was n't convinced . |
| 22 | We 'd been told by the guardian that the bolts on the climb were ‘ good . ’ |
| 23 | She , she 'd been told by the Reeds that |
| 24 | Mr was well aware because he 'd been told by the plaintiffs solicitors that the plaintiffs received terms for cover or to obtain interest on their costs , the plaintiffs solicitors wrote specifically to Mr enquiring was his offer in , in the sum of forty two thousand pounds , that 's er the possible agreed settlement figure for costs , er if it was inclusive or exclusive of interest erm there were some delay but er Mr wrote back in due course making clear that interest was n't included , I should also say that in Mr er proposed bill of costs he had disallowed interest for a fairly short period in respect of both the plaintiffs bill of costs and the defendants bill of costs and the plaintiffs solicitors do n't appear to have erm taken any point on that , but as I say it , the point as to interest was specifically raised by the plaintiffs solicitors letter and er I 'm quite satisfied on the correspondence that they when it came to the matter were seen , were desires of obtaining interest in respect of their costs . |
| 25 | And the marvellous thing in Plato of Socrates , when he 'd been told by the Delphic Oracle that he was the wisest of men , he started off like a sort of good poperian scientist trying to falsify this and he went round finding people wiser than himself and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought ‘ Oh , the poets , they 're marvellous people , they know so much ’ , and he went to them and he found that the had n't a clue what they 'd written . |
| 26 | And the marvellous thing in Plato , of Socrates , erm when he 'd been told by the Delphic oracle that he was the wisest of men , he , he started off like a sort of good Popperian scientist trying to falsify this , erm and he went round finding people wiser than himself , and he went to various people and they were n't any wiser , and then he thought , ‘ Oh , the poets ! |
| 27 | Patrick himself made a statement to my sister which I 've got on tape , saying he 'd been discarded by the woman he married . |
| 28 | All along that awful journey I 'd been tortured by the thought that someone might have found and moved the dinghy and that I would be trapped in this hellish marsh . |
| 29 | Although she 'd been enchanted by the boisterous reunions , her attention was immediately arrested by the man 's striking colouring . |
| 30 | Oh , it was eighteen months I should imagine , I was doing quite well , I 'd been praised by the head electrician and everything , for further advancement till er that particular incident stopped it . |